Head of public tv broadcaster dismissed

The National Media Council has dismissed Jacek Kurski from the post of the president of public broadcaster TVP, niezalezna.pl webportal said. The motion to remove Kurski, filed by Joanna Lichocka a member of the body, won four out of five votes in favor. Kurski is a journalist and a politician. He served as a PiS MP between 2005 and 2007 and was elected as a MEP in 2007. He replaced Janusz Daszczyński in the post of the head of TVP in January 2016. The name of the new president of the broadcaster is still to be announced.