The legislation foresees the allocation of 3 billion zlotys (263 billion forints) in the public media budget. Andrzej Duda announced on the X Community platform that he could not sign the bill under conditions of “flagrant violation of the Constitution and the basic principles of the democratic rule of law.”
According to the Head of State, first and foremost, public media must be regulated fairly and in accordance with the law. In office, the Polish head of state also informed that he would immediately submit his draft law to the Sejm after the recess, which would retain the allocations for teachers' salary increases and other budgeted expenses.
Andrzej Duda, Simon Holonia, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, President of the Senate, called for
Calling for an urgent session of the two councils to be held to discuss and approve the project “this year.”
The President stressed that in the current situation it is not acceptable to fund public media through additional legislation voted on by the parliamentary majority.
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