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FILE - Warsaw office of Poland's TVN broadcaster that is owned by the U.S. institution Discovery Inc., successful Warsaw, Poland, July 8, 2021. Polands president volition person the last determination connected a arguable media measure seen arsenic targeting a U.S.-owned TV web thats often captious of the Polish government, aft lawmakers overturned a Senate veto connected the projected legislation. It would forestall immoderate non-European entity from owning much than a 49% involvement successful Polish broadcasters, the applicable effect would beryllium to unit Discovery Inc., the U.S. proprietor of Polands largest backstage tv network, TVN, to merchantability its Polish holdings. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

WARSAW – Poles marched successful cities crossed the state Sunday to support a U.S.-owned tv web that is being targeted by the country's right-wing authorities and to support media freedoms successful a European Union federation wherever antiauthoritarian norms are eroding.

Many of the protesters were older Poles who decades agone resisted the country's communist regime. They fearfulness that the ideology that they helped usher successful is present being mislaid to them. They judge Poland's populist right-wing authorities is turning the state distant from the West and adopting an authoritarian exemplary person to that of Turkey oregon Russia with attempts to exert governmental power implicit the courts and soundlessness captious media.

The protests, led by absorption groups, were called aft the parliament connected Friday unexpectedly passed a measure that would unit Discovery Inc. to merchantability its controlling stock of TVN, Poland’s largest tv network.

TVN operates an all-news transmission TVN24 and its main channel, TVN, has a nightly evening quality programme viewed by millions that offers captious reporting of the government.

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The destiny of the measure present lies with President Andrzej Duda. The main protestation connected Sunday was taking spot successful beforehand of the statesmanlike palace successful Warsaw.

Government leaders person defended the authorities by arguing that it is important for nationalist information to guarantee that nary institution extracurricular of Europe tin power companies that assistance signifier nationalist opinion.

The United States is simply a adjacent state of Warsaw and has urged the authorities not to walk the law, viewing it arsenic a hostile enactment towards a U.S. company.

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