Prof. Gliński directly about Sienkiewicz’s actions: This is a continuation of the process of destroyed Polish culture. The law is being brutally broken

The more he breaks the law, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, the more he threatens, appeals to extreme emotions and “waves his flail” in all directions, threatening to bring this or that before a tribunal – this is how PiS MP Piotr Gliński responded to the announcement of the request for a Court of Justice for the head of the National Broadcasting Council, Maciej Świrski.

During today’s press conference, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz was asked whether he could influence the National Broadcasting Council to transfer money from the license fee to public television and radio. Sienkiewicz responded that the head of the National Broadcasting Council, Maciej Świrski, does not pay money to the media because “his political colleagues are not in power there.” He also ruled that Świrski drastically broke the law and that a report had been submitted to the prosecutor’s office in this case.

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PiS MP and former Minister of Culture in the PiS government Piotr Glinski Commenting on this announcement on Thursday at a press conference in the Sejm, he said that “Sienkiewicz has unlawfully destroyed Polish culture, he breaks the law every day, he violates the constitution, because it clearly states that the minister must act within the framework of the law and on the basis of the law.”

Therefore, he will obviously suffer the consequences

– he emphasized.

The more times he breaks the law, the more likely he is to accept that he is in the position of someone who behaves like a criminal. Therefore, the more he threatens, the more he becomes afraid, the more he appeals to extreme emotions and swings his flail in all directions to bring this or that before some tribunal. And this is that kind of response

– said Gliński.

Cultural institutions

Minister Sienkiewicz dismissed the directors of the Pilecki Institute, Magdalena Gawin, the Polish Institute of Cinematography, Radosław Śmigulski, and the Institute for the Heritage of National Thought, Jan Żaryn. He also announced the resignation of the head of the Polonics Institute, Dorota Janiszewska-Jakubiak. He announced that there will be new management at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute from May 1.

During the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media, MP Piotr Gliński discussed the minister’s decision.

Mr. Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz has just unlawfully dismissed four directors of four subsequent cultural institutions. This is a continuation of the absolutely insane destruction of Polish culture, especially from directors like Ms. Dorota Janiszewska. The mass dismissal of directors is a scandal, without any legal basis. These are just speculations

– said the former head of the Ministry of Culture.

This is how Poland is continually being ruined, unfortunately, by all of you, and the entire coalition is responsible for it. You are all responsible for these actions, which you will be responsible for because they are illegal, because you vote for them. This is the destruction of cultural institutions. This is happening in violation of the law, because, as you know, there are specific grounds for dismissing directors in the law you voted for, and all this is being violated and destroyed.

– added.

The story about the transfer of PLN 74 million to extremist organizations is all journalistic, cheap, cabaret and such ridiculous information, conveyed with complete joking that destroys institutions, destroys Poland, and that’s what we need to talk about

– Gliński emphasized.

A press conference

Regarding the Sienkiewicz decision, Prof. Gliński also commented during a press conference in the Sejm.

This is a continuation of the process of destroying Polish culture that has been going on for four months. These dismissals, like the previous ones, are illegal and for purely political reasons. Mr. Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz said that the reason for his actions, which he himself calls “butcher’s work”, is the concretization of Polish law. The law on the basis of which Polish cultural institutions operate was adopted by the predecessors of the governments in which I had the right to sit.

– he said.

There is talk of ruining the rule of law and violating the law and the constitution. (…) All four decisions are illegal. (…) This is still a powerful destruction of the Polish legal order and cultural institutions, to the detriment of this culture. All these philosophical justifications, which are often found in this buffoonery and in all the speeches of Mr. Sienkiewicz, have two characteristic features. On the one hand, Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz is a philosopher-autocrat who believes he has the right to make free decisions about the Polish constitutional state, the Polish institutional order and Polish culture. There is no such law

– argued Prof. Gliński.

The law is brutally broken and justified in an often ridiculous, bloated and empty way. (…) Mr Sienkiewicz denies the right of people who think differently to function in the Polish institutional order. For example, he mentions circles that are concerned with the legacy of national thought-extremist circles. He lies about some facts. The second manifestation of this philosophizing, because it is difficult to call it serious, is the incompetence that arises from these verbal tirades, this buffoonery. For example, Mr Sienkiewicz does not know that the Polish Cathedral or the Armenian Cathedral in Lviv are under the care of the Polish nature conservation services and that the Polonica Institute has been carrying out projects there for years. He announces that some projects will be carried out

– he said.

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