Polish President Duda Says Parliament Scraps Plan to Limit Media Access

Polish Sejm, the lower house of the parliament, has abandoned its plans to restrict media access to the parliament's building, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday.

WARSAW (Sputnik) — The members of Polish opposition parties have been staging sit-in protests in Sejm since Friday due to the intention of the lower house to impose new media restrictions that would allow only a limited number of TV stations in Poland to record parliamentary sessions next year.

"I talked to [Polish Senate] Speaker Mr. Stanislaw Karczewski in the morning and asked… to abandon all preliminary provisions of the draft bill. There are no any preliminary provisions… I want to stress one thing — these were the preliminary provisions of the draft, but it was not the draft of the speaker's order," Duda said in a televised interview.