The full thing seems like a good circus on wheels. This was the case: the Sejm voted to put Świrski before the Court of State, which resulted in the suspension of his functioning as president of the KRRiT. The pig didn't accept that decision. 3 of the Council's written representatives then issued a message that putting Świrski in front of the TS is “a violation of the rules of the democratic regulation of law”. Only Prof. Tadeusz Kowalski agreed that Świrski could not participate in the KRRiT meetings and announced that he should apply for his dismissal.
And it became extraordinary: Świrski cancelled the four-member board in 3 composed of PiS representatives! The chair of the KRRiT was Agnieszka Glapiak (in the Council he is from the advice of the PiS). It's like a knife to Swirski's back got his own environment. The appellants claimed that they were afraid about "the appropriate fulfilment of the constitutional duties of the KRRiT threatened by the actions of the ruling coalition in the Polish Parliament". And specified justification was besides passed by Prof. Kowalski, who found himself in a stalemate situation and voted – I think – for little evil. The Piggy first did not accept this vote, claiming that it was illegal and yet reconciled with it, although he announced his further participation in the KRRiT meetings as its member.
All these actions compromise the KRRiT, showing its political addictions and background to individual disputes, in which the most crucial seem to be the individual and political interests of its board members, and the ideology that speaks of the concern for the democratic state and the care for constitution is simply a set of phrases to hide the actual goals and intentions. This game of appearances is primarily about the interests of political parties, which invariably want to subjugate both public and private media. specified were the hidden but real objectives of the 1992 Broadcasting Act.
And nothing's changed since. Both the Law and the current government coalition have never truly sought to fundamentally rebuild this defective institution, the KRRiT. I have written many times about the flaws of this component of the media system, and the biggest is the choice of its composition by politicians. The only sensible thing would be to liquidate the KRRiT (as well as the National Media Council) and pass specified a media bill that would make the Polish tv and Polish Radio pluralist and civic media or, as anyone would like, public media. However, the parties have their interests and the fresh media bill inactive remains a wishful wish, and since it has been spoken of by KO politicians, it should have hurt their throats long ago. I foresee that it will proceed to be as it is; we will stay with public tv that favours the government, in a alternatively unilateral way commenting on political reality. The current authorities rapidly forgot that they had promised: “We will depoliticize and socialize the public media. We will destruct the National Media Council” (point 99 of 100 concretes). What harm is it to promise, isn't it? Nevertheless, it is worth remembering that unfulfilled promises do not win elections.
