Regulacje prawne telewizyjnych debat prezydenckich

Abstract

Article presents analisys current polish “Kodeks Wyborczy” article 120 and KRRiT ordinance, that regulate specific rules of television debates during elections campaign. After describing the genesis of television presidential debates In Poland and foreign countries, the research was made to analise the practical use of current polish legal regulations since 2011. Several debates organised in years 2015 and 2020 before both rounds of elections were included in research as well. All the records of debates introduced in article were analised to find elements that had critical meaning to the democratic system. It helped to form a possibile definition of television debate and explain its meaning to polish democracy. Further, the author describes possibile dangers to equity of candidates, that hipothetic lacks of regulations occour. At the end, author forms several rules, that could guarantee all the targets of television debate being achieved.

Keywords

• Elections campaign
• television debate
• debates history
• elections
• legal regulations