Governmental crisis in Poland following the escalation of internal political disputes

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, “Berliner Zeitung” newspaper in an article referring to The intensification of internal disputes between the president and the new prime minister of Poland spoke of the danger of a government crisis in this country and wrote: After the replacement of the leaders of the state media by Donald Tusk, the new prime minister of Poland, Andriy Duda, the president of this country, who was in favor of the previous ruling party of Law and Justice is near, the confrontation with the new government has begun.

3 billion budget for public media, including state media broadcaster TVP, which “Donald Tusk” took control of this week. has been Duda said in this regard: “The public media must first be reformed completely and according to the law. Duda also wrote that he would introduce his own bill that would not include media funding, but would include funding for teachers and civil servants. He asked the Sejm and the Senate to prepare a vote on it before the end of the year.

The veto of the Polish president can be rejected with a three-fifths majority of the representatives present in the Sejm. However, the government parties together hold only 248 of the 460 seats in the Polish parliament. The dispute over the media is the most serious clash between the new government, whose parties won a majority in October’s election.

On Saturday, verbal spats between Duda and Tusk took place on the former X’s Twitter. The president’s veto would take money from preschool and elementary school teachers while eliminating the so-called “smoke stack tax,” a tax that provides unlimited pay raises for executives at companies and government agencies, Tusk wrote. He called this act shameful and at the same time stated that he will pass it. Andrey Duda replied on Twitter: “Prime Minister, I am glad that you wrote that you will pass it too. This means that, as I have requested, you will convene the House and Senate after Christmas and pass my bill, which includes teacher pay raises, etc., but without the 3 billion for public media.

Left-liberal newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza wrote on Saturday that Andriy Duda’s veto could have far-reaching consequences. Accordingly, Donald Tusk must now decide on a new budget, which Duda must approve. This newspaper wrote: If the budget plan is not finalized by the end of January, new elections may be held.

Not long ago, the new Polish government removed the leaders of the public media on the charge of unilaterally supporting the former ruling party of Andrzej Duda. Poland’s president, who belongs to this party, provoked.

The new Polish government wants to end the propaganda of the former Polish leadership of the Law and Justice Party in the media, and that is why the new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk He has put extensive reforms in the public media, which he believes were propagandists for the previous ruling party, and dismissed the leaders of these media. Justice Belongs called the new government’s actions in this regard “totally illegal” and a violation of the Constitution. Duda said that anyone who wants different rules for media management must first change the relevant law. He said: Circumventing the existing law is chaos.

The conflict over the media is the most serious dispute between the new government, which won its majority in the October elections, and Duda, the last high-ranking representative of the Law and Justice Party. is in this government.