Radio and Television Council stands firm in face of calls to step down

None of the members of the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) has resigned despite President Kwasniewski's demanding in a letter that they do so. However, Danuta Waniek and Marek Dubaniowski, both singled out by the President, expressed their readiness to leave their posts if the situation demanded it. Before the meeting of the Council, its head, Juliusz Braun, said that all the members would resign if that was their unanimous decision. After the meeting Braun announced that Waniek and Aleksander Luczak had asked him to step down during the meeting. Braun added that he still upheld his opinion, expressed during the hearing of the Sejm investigation commission on the Rywin case, that "irregularities" occurred during the Council's work on the Media Bill. He thinks the best option is to invite new members and to set up a new, de-politicized KRRiTV. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; polskieradio.pl) M.M.