Kaczynski to veto media bill

26th June 2009

A new bill aimed at scrapping the TV and Radio licence fee has ran into trouble with President Kaczynski who has threatened to veto it for being unconstitutional.


On Wednesday, the upper house of the Polish parliament, the Senate, voted in favour of replacing the licence fee with direct funding from taxation, a move it says will bring in around PLN 900 million for state broadcasting.

But according to the President’s Chancellery “The chances of the President approving this media bill are very low because it is obviously unconstitutional.

“By introducing a new financing scheme for public broadcasting and limiting the role of the National Broadcasting Council to merely a consu ...