{"id":122674,"date":"2023-12-21T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=122674"},"modified":"2023-12-21T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:30:29","slug":"eu-crony-donald-tusk-criticised-after-shutting-down-polish-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/eu-crony-donald-tusk-criticised-after-shutting-down-polish-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"EU crony Donald Tusk criticised after shutting down Polish broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Tusk, the former European Council president who is now Poland\u2019s Prime Minister, has been accused of \u201cthe destruction of democracy\u201d after seizing control of country\u2019s state media and taking it off air.<\/p>\n

Mr Tusk, who last week returned to the post he occupied from 2007 to 2014, has portrayed his move as a way of re-establishing independent media in Poland in a legally binding and lasting way.<\/p>\n

However, Beata Szydlo, an MEP and herself a former Polish PM between 2015 and 2017, offered a scathing analysis, accusing him of \u201can illegal takeover\u201d of Telewizja Polska (TVP).<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Polish MPs in the country\u2019s legislature, the Sejm, adopted a resolution presented by Mr Tusk’s government calling for the restoration of “legal order, objectivity and fairness\u201d of TVP, Polish Radio and the PAP news agency.<\/p>\n

After the resolution, Poland’s new culture minister, Bart\u0142omiej Sienkiewicz, replaced the heads and the supervisory boards of state media, which chose new management.<\/p>\n

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The new head of TVP’s supervisory board, lawyer Piotr Zemla, came to the broadcaster’s headquarters on Wednesday, along with the new management and journalists.<\/p>\n

Ms Szydlo, a member of the recently ousted Law and Justice Party (PiS), told Express.co.uk: \u201cDonald Tusk’s government is trying to change the authorities in charge of public media in Poland based on a Sejm resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cSejm resolutions do not provide a legal basis for authorities other than the Sejm. Nevertheless, based on this, Tusk’s people broke into the headquarters of Polish Television and claimed that they are now in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, the authorities immediately stopped the broadcasting of Polish Television, an unprecedented event in Polish history. It is as if the BBC was taken off the air at the request of the Prime Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n

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