After starting a purge and firing the management of the Polish public media, the Tusks took over the headquarters by force - one PiS representative was also injured.

Tusks sent "strong people" without credentials to the TVP headquarters, writes wPolityce.

These people barricaded themselves in the room of the president of the state television and

 Internet and cable access to TVP Info was stopped from there.

Representative Mariusz Kałużny said in relation to what happened that

the situation is dramatic, this is simply Belarus.

During the violent takeover of the public media, one of PiS's female representatives, Joanna Borowiak, also injured her right arm, which had to be bandaged. The police are currently on the scene at the TVP headquarters.

However, the Polish Constitutional Court warned last Thursday: the competent minister must refrain from liquidating the companies operating the public media and replacing their management.

On Wednesday, Polish Minister of Culture and Heritage Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz dismissed the CEOs of public television, radio and the state news agency PAP, and formed new supervisory boards in the public media, the Polish Ministry of Culture (MKiDN) announced on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the "necessity" of the exemption is justified by the decision voted in the Sejm on Tuesday night. According to the document voted by the coalition that won the majority following the parliamentary elections in October, "remedial measures" must be taken at the public media.

According to the MKiDN, the warning issued by the Polish Constitutional Court last Thursday, according to which the relevant minister must refrain from liquidating the companies operating the public media and replacing their management, is legally invalid. The board issued the warning at the request of the representatives of the currently opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), which was in power until last week.

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Featured image: Donald Tusk, the president of the Civic Coalition (KO), candidate for prime minister, speaks to the press after signing a coalition agreement that entered the parliament following the October elections in Poland, and together with the leaders of the other three opposition groups that formed the majority there until now, counting on the possibility of their mandate to form a government, the legislature in its Warsaw building on November 10, 2023. The KO entered into an alliance with Poland 2050 (Polska 2050) led by Szymon Holownia, the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) led by Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, and the New Left (Nowa Lewica) led by Wlodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Biedron, counting on the possibility of their mandate to form a government. MTI/AP/Czarek Sokolowski