However, as I reported earlier, the current #TVPiS administration and "news" department have barricaded their two Warsaw HQs - to the point the "news" leaders are said to sleep in the halls, and New Year's Eve of Dreams conference was moved to a random Warsaw restaurant 😆
Another demonstration outside #TVPiS "news" department HQ tonight in support of the politicized, right-wing incarnation of the "public" broadcaster, by another PiS-friendly TV channel's editor-in-chief...
Note this was at 1932z, while thing should be getting more spicy, hmmm... now?
Earlier this evening, a PiS MP and member of PiS-backed Council of National(ist) Media, Joanna Lichocka, was in #TVPiS disInfo's director's room, proudly defending "Freedom of Media and Right to Choose"...
She was also a guest of TVPiS' "news"; her interview ran for about 20 minutes and included praise towards TVPiS "journalists"...
In fact, about 100 PiS MPs (just over half of their total Sejm team) decided to gather at the entrance of TVP's main HQ at Woronicza Street, instead of voting against the resolution in Sejm. They don't have the majority, so their presence makes no difference.
At 2113z, the resolution calling for immediate changes in #Poland's public media was acclaimed by #Sejm. Only 344 out of 460 members cast their vote, 244 in favour, 84 against, 16 passed on.
#TVPiS' immediate reaction? BLACK NEWS TICKER XDDDDDDDDDDDDD
And main headline: "ATTACK ON PUBLIC MEDIA - COALITION OF DECEMBER 13TH PASSED A MUZZLING RESOLUTION" 🤣🤣🤣
(Dec 13 is when the new government was sworn in, which is also the same day Martial Law was imposed in Communist Poland in 1981...)
I'm skipping a bit in my "delayed" coverage, but #TVPiS 1 is relaying TVPiS disInfo!!!!!!!!! Complete with graphics, including the BLACK NEWS TICKER 😂😂😂😂😂😂
THEY ABRUPTLY INTERRUPTED A MOVIE AT 2133z TO JOIN THAT SIMULCAST
This photo from #TVPiS "news" HQ, which is not at Woronicza Street (Plac Powstańców Warszawy = Warsaw Uprising Militants Square). Three TVPiS chief editors and propagandists (Samuel Pereira, Michał Adamczyk, Marcin Tulicki) + former PM Morawiecki + former government official Marcin Horała.
Somebody on X-#birdsite said in relation to protests in defence of TVN24, when PiS-dominated National Radio & TV Council was extremely reluctant & unwilling to extend a broadcast licence of this liberal, truly critical of PiS, news channel, back in 2021.
They said:
"TVN was defended from politicians by people.
TVP is defended from people by politicians."
Artur Molęda again: "A conference with Jarosław Kaczyński is in progress in the middle of TVP building as a programme about cleaning the toilet is playing in the background" 😂😂😂 #TVPiS
At 0712z, #TVPiS disInfo relay in a National Mourning mode is still going on TVPiS 1 with "COALITION OF DEC 13TH ATTEMPTS TO UNLAWFULLY TAKE OVER POLISH TELEVISION, POLISH RADIO AND PAP (Polish Press Agency - ed.)
Per postings from a media chat I monitor, the relay carried on all night long, and was only interrupted for daily Holy Mass at 7am (0600z).
@ai6yr yeah, this one gets activated only during emergencies, and even if it relays, say, a morning news show which may sometimes divert into other topics, these get cut out of this stream!
So I'm checking ZL1ROT #KiwiSDR on Rotorua🇳🇿 to see NO signal of Radio Vanuatu 🇻🇺 on any of their known #shortwave freqs (2485 if ever used, 3945, 7260, guess I forgot about one - maybe @ 5 MHz? Absent too anyway).
But got Solomon Islands BC 🇸🇧 on 5020 kHz, pretty strong and... well, not clear, as there's plenty of thunderstorm crashes possibly from the cyclone.
@abolitionniste@elCelio@kattascha nearly all major Polish media are reporting about the elections, so I thought it should be easy to find one. E.g. look at wp.pl, onet.pl, interia.pl, TVN24.pl, gazeta.pl etc. etc. etc. if you want, I can even give you the PiS-allied sources as well 😂
We've been waiting very loooooong for them as voting on some stations went way overtime (until 3am at one!), and counting the votes is running rather slow, but eventually here they are.
Law and Justice (PiS) - 36.6%, 198 seats
Civic Coalition (KO) - 31.0%, 161
Third Way: 13.5%, 57
New Left: 8.6%, 30
Confederation: 6.4%, 14
@abolitionniste no, 248 for the three democratic opposition parties, 212 for right-wing, 1 for German minority which have a seat guaranteed by law = 460 seats in total.
I covered a Warsaw district where voting didn't finish until 0:10.
But in Wrocław, there's an even more extreme case: a peripheral district of Jagodno, which saw its population grow by 227% in 15 years, is still voting!
There was HOURS' long break in voting there because the sole electoral commission for the district failed to get more cards delivered. Some are waiting for 6 hours now!
People help each other, delivering tea, pizza, and jackets.
Uninterrupted live coverage is running even on the main TVN channel, free & nationwide on terrestrial TV.
Also on TVN24 and competing Polsat News, which are both paid... but NOT on "public" #TVPiS disInfo. I'm sure they're processing it "accordingly" though...
Did you know Polish authorities ARE censoring Polish Internet?
Try accessing nczas.com - what do you see? I only see an ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH 🙄
Plenty of snapshots at @internetarchive including four from yesterday...
nczas.com presents viewpoints even further right than PiS' - in particular, it is strongly nationalist & anti-Ukrainian. The blockade is apparently imposed by the Agency of Internal Security (ABW).