2023. December 19 – 15:33
Currently, funding for public media will not be provided in the Polish budget next year – new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Tuesday. In a press conference In Warsaw.
“Public media as they are now are not worthy of funding from taxpayers’ pockets. We are ready to support public media after the situation improves,” Tusk said, according to the MTI report. The Polish Prime Minister added that no funds would be allocated for this purpose in the year’s budget. Next.
Regarding the fact that the Sejm will put on its agenda on Tuesday the resolution on the public service of television and radio and the Polish News Agency, Tusk said: The document “represents the first step towards improving public media.” He also announced that the parliamentary majority would prepare laws that would “restore the fundamental neutrality of the public media.”
Although the ruling Law and Justice party won the largest number of votes in the Polish parliamentary elections held on October 15, the opposition coalition led by Donald Tusk together won more votes, allowing Tusk to form the government. We’ve covered in detail how the opposition won in Poland here.
