CURRENT HYBRID ASSAULT ON MEDIA FREEDOM IN POLAND

Donald Tusk indeed decided to paralyze and effectively dismantle the Council by initiating a completely unfounded motion in 2024 to bring its Chairman, Maciej Świrski, before the State Tribunal4. The most serious charge concerned the alleged failure to disburse funds from the public broadcasting license fee to media outlets that had been illegally taken over by the Tusk government. Given existing legal uncertainties, Świrski transferred the funds to a court deposit account. The chances of his conviction before the State Tribunal were virtually zero from the outset — both due to the absurdity of the charges (which, however, is no obstacle in the “fighting democracy” constructed by the globalist autocracy), and due to the lack of the required qualified majority. Nevertheless, the Tusk coalition did possess the votes necessary to initiate the indictment — as the law (until recently) required only an absolute majority. That moment was crucial: under the then-applicable rules, the act of indictment automatically resulted in the Chairman’s suspension from duties. For the National Broadcasting Council, this would have meant effective paralysis. Tusk sought to eliminate an inconvenient constitutional institution that had disrupted his plan to seize full control over media narratives about his government’s actions. Accordingly, on 12 June 2025, a parliamentary committee — by majority vote of the ruling coalition — submitted a motion to hold Maciej Świrski constitutionally accountable. This was the final necessary step before a plenary vote in the Sejm to officially indict and suspend him from office. Crucially, these actions were taken in total disregard of the interim measure issued by the Constitutional Court in October 2024, which explicitly prohibited MPs and the Marshal of the Sejm from undertaking any actions prior to the issuance of a final ruling — which, as noted, came on 16 July 2025