Published 2016-01-09 22:44
Protesters waved flags of Poland and the EU colors when on Saturday protested against the government’s new media law.
Warsaw. The controversial Polish media law is already in force, but that did not stop thousands of protesters to gather in Warsaw and other Polish cities on Saturday.
– We need to show that not everyone is behind the law, said the veteran Jerzy Kuchynski.
The controversial Polish media law is already in force, but that did not stop thousands of protesters to gather in Warsaw and other Polish cities on Saturday.
– We need to show that not everyone is behind the law, said the veteran Jerzy Kuchynski.
At 14 o’clock filled the open area between the National Bank and the Polish television’s offices .
Telewizja Polska (TVP) has become a focus for debate on the new law. It was passed the day before New Year’s Eve, signed by the president last Thursday and came into force on Friday with the government appointed journalist Jacek Kurski new television director.
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– He was my boss when I started as a journalist 25 years ago and I remember he criticized me because I had asked uncomfortable questions to politicians. I fear that there could be so now in Poland, said Dorota Warakomska, one of the many speakers who followed one another on stage during the two-hour meeting was going on.
Kurski belong to a journalist family, the new television -chefen Jacek Kurskis brother Jaroslaw is head of the left-liberal Gazeta Wyborcza and his entrance on stage was highly acclaimed.
– Not everyone in the family sucks, he said.
Gazeta is Poland’s leading daily newspaper, and has actively supported the committee in defense of democracy (Code), which organized Saturday’s demonstrations in Warsaw and 16 other cities.
– We reject the biased and political media. When we started with the Gazeta Wyborcza we had to fight against all, we won then and we will win now, said Kurski-brother.
The meeting participants also sang on and off, with the largest attendance at the old Solidarity anthem “walls” that were sung in the fight against Communist dictatorship in the 80s – then as now participants made the V-sign during the chorus.
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The engineer Jerzy Kuchynski experienced time during the 80′s and was in place even on Saturday.
– Although the law already in force, it is important to show that not everyone is behind it . There may be only fifty percent who voted in the election.
Then the Poles blame themselves?
– There are many who repent in the day that they did not vote, thought the 76-year-old engineer.
The average age of the meeting was remarkably high.
– The young are not aware of the dangers that lurk. They live in a bubble and engage in other, said Joanna Augustyn, doctoral and 26 years.
But are not you?
– I am interested it happens, maybe it has to do with my family background as well.
Employees in TVP building opened the windows to hear what was said in the square, “came to us,” chanted the participants and soon reached one of the speakers of a text message from the TV house with the words “we are with you”.
The population synthesis , a banner with the Kaczynski quotes, specifically from the deceased President Lech Kaczynski, twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, party leader of the governing party, Law and Justice (PiS) and which today holds all the strings.
The quotation from 2008 read:
“Whoever believes that one can democratize the media by the government appoints the TV director is not only host to be criticized, but also ridiculed. “
The meeting in Warsaw ended with the participants together sang the Polish national anthem, the one that begins with the words” Once Poland is not lost. “
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