The court of the new TVP authorities, appointed by the Minister of Culture Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz. Court clerk Tomasz Kosub stated that the resolution on appointing members of the supervisory board and the resolution of the supervisory board on appointing the management board were adopted by an unauthorized body. This decision can be appealed, but it is not certain whether the government will decide to go this route after TVP went into liquidation.
The head of “19:30”, Paweł Płuska, did not want to talk about the case
There was no information about this in the “19.30” program. So Press journalists called Paweł Płuska and asked him why he made such a decision. As they write, he hung up on the first call. “When we called again, he only said: I have nothing to say about it. Goodbye” – .
The court found that Sienkiewicz had no right to dismiss the supervisory board of TVP and appoint new members in December last year. In his opinion, this is the prerogative of the National Media Council, which was established on the initiative of Law and Justice in 2016. However, in a judgment from 2016, the Constitutional Tribunal found it unconstitutional to deprive the National Broadcasting Council, a body empowered by the Constitution, of participation in appointing and dismissing the authorities of TVP and Polish Radio. Therefore, the RMN is an unconstitutional body.
TVP is in liquidation
On December 19, 2023, Sienkiewicz appointed Tomasz Sygut as the president of TVP, “circumventing” the competences of RMN by invoking the provisions of the Commercial Companies Code. They show that the State Treasury is the owner of Telewizja Polska. Later, however, as a result of President Andrzej Duda failing to sign the budget-related act, the government put TVP into liquidation.
“The decision to refuse to disclose Tomasz Sygut in the register as the president of the management board of TVP refers, due to the opening of the company’s liquidation and the expiry of the president’s mandate, to outdated data,” wrote Katarzyna Bilewska from the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Warsaw on social media. She added that “the company should withdraw the application in this respect and the registry court should discontinue the proceedings.” In the entry, Bilewska also emphasizes that “the task of the National Court Register is to disclose current, not historical information.”
Source: Gazeta
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