Warsaw. Protest against “Lex TVN”. Speeches by politicians, journalists and activists
“Free media, free people, free Poland.” In the capital of TV happened the main protest “N”. – We are still a democratic country, but only thanks to you, thanks to civic prosperity, that you do not give yourself and us hope – said Rafał Trzaskowski, the president of the capital. All opposition groups, journalists and activists will appear at the speech. According to the policy of the capital city, the demonstration is very peaceful.
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Moments after 7 p.m., in Warsaw with the Presidential Palace, it began before the main Sunday protest in defense of TVN and media freedom, under the slogan “Free media, free people, free Poland”. Similar demonstrations were organized in over a hundred Polish cities and towns.
“I have come to defend the TV remote”
The first entry will appear on the red stage: Edward Miszczak, TVN Programming Director and member of the board of TVN Grupa Discovery, Jacek Żakowski from the Polityka weekly, Jarosław Kurski, first deputy editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Wyborcza” or Piotr Pacewicz from OKO.press .
– The situation is dynamic. Remember when there were those black screens at the beginning of the year. To make this amazing there was a free media release that we managed to do. Half a year ago, we defended the TVN24 concession, and today PiS came for all TVN Discovery Groups – said Edward Miszczak.
“I didn’t come here to protect my jobs, though maybe a little.” I’m here to defend the TV remote. I do not play to tell us what to practice, it will not tell us what to watch – cultivate.
Jacek Żakowski “Polityka” said that “the government wants to break the bond that journalists were looking for with the construction journalists with information about reality”. – This is about Poland’s freedom – he said.
On the other hand, Jarosław Kurski, the first editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborne, an appeal to others: – The presidential elections took place on a sloping pitch, the lesson of this is that we have never been so lazy and we speak with one voice without being relativized. There is no freedom without solidarity, so let us be solidarity, because if we are in solidarity, we will be free until we are free, and we will overcome when we are free.
Piotr Pacewicz from OKO.press points out that free media must have access to alert about security alerts. – I do not think that this power with power, but I want us to realize that we the media, to defend the right of free media, shout about harm, to alert about the rights of power, he stated.
Company representatives
The civic hosts also took the floor. Bogumił Kolmasak from the Democracy Action that in the media “there will be no rainbow flag under the heel of the authorities, without a fight for women’s rights, it will not be ready to hear about the revenge of child psychiatry.” – I dream of where we have many points, I dream of where employment rights are realized, they are realized in the health care system, they are different rights provided – he said.
Advocate Ewa Marcjoniak reminds that “without the media, there is no freedom of speech, and only freedom of speech is a weapon for us when a citizen becomes a confrontation with the authorities.” – We stand up for freedom of speech, changing judgments, independent prosecution, which stand on the side of the institute – she always said.
– Poles and Poles know that the secular state should be here and now, and the separation of state and state should be firm and sharp – said Bożena Przyłuska from the Congress of Secularism.
Tusk quoted Miłosz
All opposition political formations also took the floor. The first speaker was Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform. – I will not talk to President Duda, I will talk to us, in the fact that you cannot go to the street today in defense of the media. I want them to remember each day about those who cannot strive to the end of the last one, because we want to support their household budgets. For all those who are sitting at home now, because there is no place in networks for their owners, suffering from COVID 19. If only we were like when the first “Solidarity” was created together. we will stand in solidarity in the queues, we will win, we will sweep this service away, there will be no trace of them.
The words of Czesław Miłosz, which they have on the monument to the fallen carriers in Gdańsk after Solidarity won, also got used to. – Those people who now placed these words of Czesław Miłosz on the monument of this edition, today they presented the same words of this command, which is ruining Poland today – said Tusk.
– These words fit well with this goal of the battle of our meetings. I address them to the inhabitant of this Palace and his principal: – Don’t be safe, the poet remembers. You can go to the fun, a new one will be born. Deeds and conversations will be written. Better for you would be a winter dawn, and a rope and a branch bent under the weight. Remember these words – she added.
Rafał Trzaskowski, the president, seeing the gathered crowd, commented: Warsaw did not disappoint. – We have lived long enough to see if the electrodes are there, they ask us, Poland is a free place. Yes, we are still a democratic country, but we only have thanks to ourselves, thanks to it civic, you give us and we hope – he said.
Deputy Speaker of the Senate Gabrielrawska-Stanecka tudźczachy: – Again, you fell in bed again, when for someone, six years ago, Poles for the first time took to the streets to protest against the reversal of the Tribunal Tribunal.
Nowa Włodzimierz Włodzimierz Wlodzimierz participate in the fact that “this one or the whole opposition”, and Barbara Nowacka: – I am proud that there are so many of us. It is not about this or that television, it is about something important, it is about freedom, about our right to the right to truth.
“We must be very civic”
The former Ombudsman, Adam Bodnar, also took the floor, pointing out that this story is not only about lex TVN, but about whether we will have a democracy. – In 20, irrespective of this year, what to get very civic, what to get very civic, what to get very civic, each of us, 22 when asked what we want to do for and for the presence of Poland in the European Union. After the elections, there will be a day when these elections will have to be evaluated, and the Supreme Court will be the currency of that country.
The demonstration in Warsaw started around 9 pm As Sylwester Marczak informed us, it positioned “very calmly”.
“Lek TVN”
On Friday, the Sejm voted in favor of the Senate’s resolution, which is to cut us off the amendment to the Broadcasting Act and shorten us to seal the target and television, it has been clarified since 2004, who say that they wrote that now the restriction of radio stations based on the provisions of Spanish concessions may not exceed the law 49, which provides for civil law 49, which does not exceed civil law.
A technological solution constructed in such a way that prevents the American discovery from having the method in the TVN Group. Earlier, as agreed by the Senate – against the opposition – it dealt with the Sejm Committee on Culture and Media. Now the bill will go to President Andrzej Duda.
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