In Poland, the conflict between political camps over public media continues after the new government of Donald Tusk replaced its leadership.
About a dozen MPs from the expelled national conservative ruling party PiS spent the night from Thursday to Friday in the PAP news agency building, private television station TVN24 reported. Accordingly, new manager Marek Blonski was prevented from entering his office.
On Wednesday, the new pro-European government of Donald Tusk took the first steps to end PiS control over public media. Culture Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz dismissed the entire management of the public broadcaster in one fell swoop.
This affected the CEOs and supervisory boards of the TVP television station, Polish Radio and the PAP news agency. The Tusk government accuses the media of spreading party propaganda during the past eight years of the PiS government. International organizations had also criticized the one-sided reporting by public media in Poland.
The PiS leadership around Jaroslaw Kaczynski is protesting against the reorganization of the public media, they are talking about a coup and an attack on democracy and press freedom. The PiS-affiliated president criticized the actions of Tusk’s government as “completely illegal.”
In the October 15 elections, a three-party alliance of the former opposition led by Tusk won the government majority. The PiS, which had been in power since 2015, lost power. (saw/sda/dpa)
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