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Poland’s revolution gets real as government reclaims control of public media
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https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-government-media-news-agency-law-and-justice-tusk/
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WARSAW — Poland’s new government moved Wednesday to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from the hands of loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost power following the October 15 parliamentary election.
A day earlier, the parliament passed a resolution calling on the ministry of culture to take decisive action to restore “citizens’ access to reliable information, the functioning of public media, as well as ensuring [their] independence, objectivity, and pluralism.”
Wednesday’s move was greeted with fury by PiS MPs, many of whom have taken up residence in the TVP headquarters in Warsaw in an effort to block management changes.
“The Tusk government is implementing its plan to take over public media — disregarding the law,” Beata Szydło, a former PiS prime minister and now a member of the European Parliament said on X.
On Tuesday, Tusk appointed new heads for the main intelligence and security agencies, which had been accused of supporting PiS and of spying on the party’s opponents.
The two — Mariusz Kamiński, the former security services minister, and his deputy Maciej Wąsik — said they would disregard the verdict and would refuse to give up their parliamentary seats.
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