The Polish government has formally dissolved the public media. Attacker from Prague confessed to previous double murder in suicide letter

The new Polish government of Donald Tusk wants to formally dissolve the public media, but want to preserve jobs.

“Following the Polish President’s decision to suspend funding for public media, I have decided to liquidate the companies TVP, Polish Radio and the PAP news agency,” Culture Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz wrote on the X platform on Wednesday. the continued functioning of these media can be secured and their restructuring can be pursued.

With this step, the dispute between the new and old government camps over public media enters the next round. Last week, Sienkiewicz dismissed the entire management of the public broadcaster in one fell swoop. The Tusk government accuses the media of spreading party propaganda in recent years under the national-conservative PiS government, which has now been voted out. International organizations had also criticized the one-sided reporting by public media in Poland.

On Saturday, Polish President Andrzej Duda, who himself comes from the ranks of the PiS, vetoed a law passed by Tusk’s government that provided for the equivalent of 690 million euros in subsidies from public broadcasters. Duda justified his move saying this was a circumvention of the constitution and a violation of constitutional principles. He demanded that the public media must first be repaired thoroughly and in accordance with the law.

(hah/sda/dpa)