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  "slug": "beata-szydlo",
  "name": "Beata Szydlo",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Prime Minister of Poland",
  "country": "PL",
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      "slug": "2015-poland-public-media-law-firings",
      "title": "Poland's new government gains power to replace public broadcaster leadership, and journalists are dismissed",
      "occurred_on": "2015-12-31",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "PL",
      "country_name": "Poland",
      "continent": "europe",
      "jurisdiction": "PL",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
      "tactics": [
        "funding_and_ownership_pressure"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "beata-szydlo",
      "leader_name": "Beata Szydlo",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Law and Justice's decisive October 2015 election win and its stated aim of overhauling public institutions it viewed as insufficiently accountable to voters.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2019-12-31",
      "outcome_note": "The appointment power and pattern of dismissals continued through the remainder of the PiS government's term; ownership of the public broadcasters changed only after a later change of government.",
      "stage": "pressure",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 27,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Weeks after winning power, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party passed a law letting the treasury minister directly appoint and dismiss the heads of public radio and television, and dozens of journalists at the public broadcaster were subsequently dismissed or resigned.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2015-poland-public-media-law-firings"
    }
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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