Kaczyński criticizes the President
‘If Duda wants to proceed cooperating on this matter, the fresh government will be interested.“Schetyna said about the president’s engagement in changes to TVP. Let us add that Jarosław Kaczyński negatively assessed the head of state's overly passive attitude in defence of TVP.
– We believe that 1 day, or possibly 1 hour, a president who is not active will change his mind. said Jarosław Kaczyński at TVP headquarters. He besides stated that “PresidentHe could intervene very decisively, and the full thing would be over.‘.
The president has already written a letter to the talker of the Sejm concerning changes in public media and criticised the actions of the fresh government. He stands in the position that they can be made, but by law. On the another hand, Andrzej Duda, asked on Radio Zet by Bogdan Rymanowski about the objectivity of public media, admitted that TVP and Polish Radio have always been a political spoil for election winners since 1989.
Andrzej Duda is angry with the PiS
According to Interia, PiS politicians demanded that the president come to the TVP office and together with them “defensive” public media. Andrzej Duda, although he is simply a critic of what is happening around these media, stated that specified an thought is ridiculous. In addition, the president's environment argues that the PAD does not have much tools for concrete action on this issue. – Because PiS took it from him, he deliberately dismantled all the fuses, which Tusk now, with a grin on his lips, uses – Kamila Baranowska from the Presidential Palace is annoyed.
Let us remind you that in time, the Law and Justice Office stripped the competence of the KRRiT and created the National Media Council to take the influence on the media, including the issue of their financing. Initially, the bill and the president's signature were necessary. In time, PiS, with a view to bypassing the president, included money for TVP in the budget bill, and its PAD could not veto. In addition, 3 years ago Andrzej Duda demanded that Jack Kurski leave the position of the president of TVP for the signing of the bills for backing TVP, so it happened. but after six months, Kurski returned to the chair of TV, and PiS made a maneuver to ignore the president in the case of TVP. Since then, backing for public media has been entered straight into the budget bill.