The new Polish government led by Donald Tusk is implementing reforms of state media that amount to "anarchy," President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday, amid rising tensions between the head of state and a new pro-European Union administration.
Duda told private broadcaster Radio Zet that the sudden way the changes had been implemented broke the constitution as they skipped the appropriate parliamentary procedures.
On Wednesday, the new government took a public news channel off the air and dismissed executives from state media in a move it said was designed to restore impartiality.
State media, and in particular news channel TVP Info, were accused of having become outlets for propaganda under the rule of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party.
PiS sharply attacked the dismissals on Wednesday.
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