Piotr Farfał
Piotr Farfal ( May 22nd, 1978 in Glogów ) is a Polish politician of the right-wing League of Polish Families ( " League Polskich Rodzin ").
Career
Farfal studied law at the University of Szczecin as well as at the Higher School of Banking in Wroclaw. He was a functionary of the openly anti-Semitic Polish Youth and member of the party National Rebirth of Poland. During his student years and after that he wrote for the extreme right-wing fanzine " front ", and later for the magazine " Szczerbiec " (the name is a reference to the resulting Piast coronation sword). After graduating Farfal was temporarily head of the publishing " Ars Politica ". A private non-fiction book from his pen Myśleć po polsku ( " thinking in Polish ") was published.
In May 2006 he was appointed by the Supervisory Board of the state television TVP, appointed at the proposal of the party that was involved at the time of the Polish government coalition to the board of the transmitter and vice- director of the TVP ernannt.Einen led his own lawsuit against the national newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza lost Farfal. In May 2008, the court in Warsaw decided that Farfal must let the term " ex- neo-Nazi " like.
Following the resignation of the director Andrzej Urbanski Farfal became the new Acting Director at TVP in January 2009. His official acts made him a controversial public figure. He recanted including a pre-existing contract for the coproduction of the station when a planned U.S. feature film about the Irena Sendler died in 2008. The Supervisory Board of the transmitter failed on April 14th in the vote the motion to dismiss him due to a missing voice.
In an article published in English on the Internet open letter to the head of state, the Senators and the Members of the Polish Parliament on 26 March 2009 Polish journalists and intellectuals demanded the dismissal of the director Farfal. They accused him of is to call comrades on Principals to exercise censorship and implement projects that were contrary to public broadcasting mandate. Because Farfal the culture channel Arte has frozen its cooperation with the Polish public television.
To the Polish National Day, May 3, was called by Polish filmmakers for a boycott of the station. The appeal joined by Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wajda, and many other artists and intellectuals.
Since 1 October 2009 Farfal, resolved that a Supervisory Board, no longer head of the Polish television. His post takes over, being only a caretaker, Bogusław Szwedo
Writings (selection )
- Myśleć po polsku ( " thinking in Polish " )