Jacek Kurski to stay as TVP head

Jacek, Kurski, the current president of TVP, has won a competition to choose a new president for the public television network, Krzysztof Czabański, the head of the National Media Council (RMN), informed on Wednesday.

Four members of the RMN – Czabański himself, Elżbieta Kruk, Joanna Lichocka, and Grzegorz Podżorny – voted in favor of Kurski, with one only member, Juliusz Braun, voting against.

In the competition for new TVP president, 23 people submitted their candidacies, out of whom 18 were selected for the second stage, and four for the third stage. This last stage took place in the Sejm, where RMN members and others interviewed the four finalists. The voting to select the winner took place on Wednesday.