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obamas bitching about polish democracy gets twisted on polish tv 2016-07-10 08:03:27 Post No. 57273
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2016-07-10 08:03:27
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WARSAW—Amid fears of a rollback of Poland’s democratic freedoms, President Barack Obama had a harsh message of concern during a trip here for a NATO summit. But viewers of Poland’s main evening news program saw exactly the opposite.
Obama’s tough message on Friday, standing alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda, was that he “expressed to President Duda our concerns over certain actions and the impasse around the Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal.”
“More work needs to be done,” Obama said. “And as your friend and ally, we’ve urged all parties to work together to sustain Poland’s democratic institutions.”
But viewers of Telewizja Polska, the main public broadcaster, saw a very different suggestion on the evening news.
“Ninety-five per cent of the meeting was about issues of NATO and security, but Obama praised Polish efforts at democracy,” the reporter said. “Concerning the issue of the constitutional tribunal, he said he is sure that spreading democratic values in Poland will not stop.”
Then the broadcaster played a clip of Obama’s friendly cushioning of his criticism, while skipping the substance of the message.
In the clip played on Polish television, Obama was also translated by a dubbed voice-over as saying that “Poland is and will be an example of democracy for the whole world.”
What he actually said was that “Poland stands and needs to continue stand as an example for democratic practices around the world.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/07/09/obamas-tough-remark-about-polish-democracy-gets-twisted-on-polish-tv.html
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polfag here
numerous nationwide polish media outlets are talking about Obama being concerned about polish democracy:
http://www.newsweek.pl/polska/szczyt-nato-w-warszawie-barack-obama-andrzej-duda,artykuly,388674,1.html
http://www.rp.pl/Szczyt-NATO/160619986-Barack-Obama-chce-rozmawiac-o-polskiej-demokracji-w-czasie-szczytu-NATO.html
http://natemat.pl/184675,obama-publicznie-gani-dude-i-pis-za-to-co-wyprawiaja-w-polsce-demokracja-to-nie-tylko-slowa
http://wyborcza.pl/1,75398,20372150,szczyt-nato-w-warszawie-obama-powiedzialem-szczerze-prezydentowi.html
There has been a lot of talk lately about polish government/poland rocking the boat, trying to infringe on democratic values. However, most of the people who hasnt been keeping watch on polish political stage - aka majority of the world including poles, might not be aware that its just a part of a political struggle between 2 major parties trying to get back at each other. Theres been a major shift about a year ago in which new establishment won election resulting in demotion of old ruling establishment to opposition status. As always, such change is followed by new ruling party "extracting" all the important political and cushy posts (given the fact that Im 25 Ive witnessed about 3 similar transitions).
Alas, neither political party is interested in changing status quo or democracy for that matter. This is compounded by the fact that all major polish political parties have the same centrist political agenda. No wonder political debate here frequently ends up in name calling - there are almost no major political issues on which those parties disagree on. We dont have any truly left-wing or right-wing representative bodies getting more than 2% votes in the elections. Everybody tries to maintain neutral stance, avoiding any real talk. You can expect it to quiet down in the following years, until the next transition of power of course - 4 or 8 years from now.
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>>57295
sounds like political power in your country landed in the hands of oligarchs and they just do whole political business behind the closed door.
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>>57302
this.
in 2014 election there was 2mln invalid votes from 12mln voters.
So someone got too much votes...
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Anybody else who can't find videos of the law and justice party leader speaking? I'm in usa. About to gtfo
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