Refusing to accept loss of power, Polish right occupies state TV

Thursday, 21 December 2023
Amid a turbulent change of power, Poland's main state television news channel went abruptly off the air Wednesday as members of the ousted former government staged a sit-in to prevent new management from taking over. Led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Law and Justice's chair, the protesters accused the new government of staging a "coup d'état". Technicians supporting the new government disabled the TVP Info website and yanked it off the air. The struggle over public television is a foretaste of a long period of disruptive trench warfare between the new government and Law and Justice holdovers.

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