Michał Wawer during a 10 minute speech on behalf of the Confederate Parliamentary Club on a draft resolution on public media, Sejm, December 19, 2023.
– Madam Marshal, advanced Chamber, Dear Coalition combined with access to fresh power. It's disappointing! Disappointingly, you're going on public television. due to the fact that throughout the campaign, you've been moving a Bunchu rhetoric, a militant rhetoric, promising that as shortly as you get to power, it's the day after the beginning of your fresh term, and as shortly as you have formed your government, you'll enter the TVP like Braun with a fire extinguisher. You'll clean up. You throw everyone out, you introduce fresh rules.
It seemed that it might even happen erstwhile you called Mr Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, who is simply a man who has nothing to do with the origin of culture. However, he has large experience in setting fire to booths at patriotic manifestations. And he's a specialist in dirty work and powerful solutions. ...
The more optimistic may have expected that there might be fresh rules. That it's not just going to be a bill and a cleanup, but there's going to be a systemic change. There'll be any fresh rules, a fresh system. fresh rules for selecting TVP authorities, shaping its transmission. Or at least any man appointed head of public tv with any authority, not just organization backs. Nothing like that either.
After a fewer days of forming a fresh government, we can already see that this revolutionary zeal has subsided. large words fell, promises fell. It's just that mediocre resolution we're debating today. A mediocre resolution that actually repeats only any legal upheaval that you've been repeating over and over and over again. A mediocre resolution, which is truly a search for a legal loophole. A legal crow to remove the PiS men, the literate officers, and bring in his officers.
You in this resolution compose that Poles did not accept what public tv looked like during the regulation of the Law and Justice. And they voted against it. Yes, it is! They did not accept and voted against. And they were right. On the another hand, they did not vote to make TVPiS a TVPlatform. And that's what you're trying to do. This resolution is the first step to do so.
Poles do not want TVPlatform. Poles want public tv depoliticized, reliable, honest. They want to halt pumping taxpayers' money into propaganda.
The Confederation on this resolution will hold. He's gonna hold off so there's no notions here that we're in favour of either side. That we defend TVPiS or support the introduction of TVPlatform.
Nobody knows more than the Confederate how bad TVPiS has been for the past 8 years. The explanatory memorandum of the resolution states that the opposition had 20% of airtime over that time. Of these 20%, the Confederate had zero percent. At that time, erstwhile leftist politicians regularly went to publicist programs on TVP and their presence was regularly conquered, by theoretically right-wing PiS, they were supported, media built, Confederacy was not there at all. This was the PiS strategy for building the right in Poland. I hope you're arrogant of yourselves, considering the election results it brought you.
The Confederation shall abstain on this resolution. And we will always talk out against both TVPiS and TVPlatform.
