TVP and Polskie Radio will receive almost PLN 3 billion from the state budget in 2024. Before the elections, PO promised to donate this money to oncology.
As the row over TVP continues, members of the ruling coalition have submitted an amendment to the draft budget law, which assumes that public media will be able to receive as much as 2.95 billion złoty from the state budget in 2024.
“Up to PLN 1 billion to increase the capital of public radio and television companies and up to PLN 1.95 billion to compensate for the revenues from license fees that these entities miss,” Gazeta Wyborcza explains.
Domański: The money for TVP has been withheld
Andrzej Domański, Minister of Finance, commented on the self-change. – Money for TVP has been withheld. It is obvious. The minister has the option to transfer money, but has absolutely no obligation to do so and has no intention of transferring money, in this case in the form of bonds, to TVP, he argued.
– We will conduct an audit, see what is happening within TVP and then we will make further decisions. I want to say it very clearly again: the money for TVP has been suspended, Domański emphasized.
He also noted that he will present a plan for oncology spending together with Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna. According to him, revenues to the National Health Fund will be PLN 8 billion higher next year.
PO before the elections: PLN 2 billion will be spent on cancer treatment
During the election campaign, the Citizens’ Coalition presented “100 details for the first 100 days of the government”.
Specific number 99 reads: “We will depoliticize and socialize the public media. We will abolish the National Media Council. We will immediately stop funding the factory of lies and hatred that TVP and other public media have become. In accordance with our promise, we will allocate PLN 2 billion from TVP for the treatment of cancer.”
The public media authorities have been dismissed
On Tuesday, the Sejm adopted a resolution on “the restoration of the rule of law and the impartiality and reliability of the public media and the Polish Press Agency.” On Wednesday, the Ministry of Culture announced that the head of the ministry, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, had dismissed the current chairmen of the boards of TVP, Polskie Radio and PAP, as well as the supervisory boards. The minister appointed new supervisory boards of companies, which appointed new boards of directors.
The National Media Council and the current managements of media companies consider Sienkiewicz’s actions to be unlawful. PiS politicians speak of an ‘attack’ on the public media and call the ruling coalition the ‘December 13 coalition’ (Donald Tusk’s government was sworn in on December 13, the anniversary of the introduction of martial law).
Source: Do Rzeczy

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