Public Media Under the Previous Government

Prime Minister Donald Tusk referred to the system that the previous government had created:

“It was a system based on lies, on violence, on the violation of fundamental laws, including the Constitution, in order to keep the power in their hands.”

The Prime Minister also quoted Marcin Wolski, the author of one of TVP Info's programmes “W tyle wizji” during the previous government. During a closed-door meeting, the journalist spoke about the propaganda created in the public media at a worse level than in the 1970s. Wolski also said that “the nation was simply humiliated, the logic of struggle, the Stalinist logic – whoever is not with us is against us” prevailed.

Record High Salaries in Public Media

Some of the salaries of TVP employees reached as much as PLN 1.5 million. They include Jarosław Olechowski and Michał Adamczyk.

“The five people who ruled public television earned over 4 million zlotys in one year. It was not long ago that Poles learned that anyone ready to spit insults at the opposition, at Tusk, was paid 500 zlotys for those few words of lies and propaganda. Some people were able to earn as much as PLN 300,000 in a year for their sometimes few-second attacks on the opposition, on people,” the Prime Minister informed.

Proponents Largely Absent from the Room during Consideration of the Motion

During the consideration of the motion, the proponents, i.e. representatives of the opposition, were mostly absent from the room.

“I want to tell you – and I am not surprised, by the way, that the proposers are practically not in the Room, that they have fled – because I think they have realised that they have provoked a debate in which the moment comes to tell the truth about what they are really about. Why are they defending with such seemingly incomprehensible ferocity this eight-year public mischief, which was the activity of the so-called Law and Justice public media,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk.