Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and six other European media freedom organizations called on Poland’s newly elected president to adamantly pursue media reform and uphold press freedom in the country.

The coalition urged President-elect Karol Nawrocki to foster non-partisan cooperation in government in order to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) and adopt legal safeguards against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), which have increasingly been weaponized to silence journalists.

Nawrocki, elected on June 1 and aligned with the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, faces a tense political environment in which press freedom is both contested and precarious. His administration must work with Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-reform Civic Coalition-led

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