The media reform bill landed on President Andrzej Duda's desk on Monday morning, chief of president's office Paweł Szrot said. He added that the president has 21 days to either sign it into law or veto the proposed legislation.
Szrot said that the bill reached the president's office at 9:30 a.m.
President Andrzej Duda has three options: to sign the bill into law, to veto the bill, or to send it to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine it. The president has 21 days to make a decision.
Poles staged nationwide protests on Sunday to demand the president veto a law they say would limit media freedoms in the European Union's largest eastern member.
Unexpectedly rushed through parliament on Friday, the legislation would tighten rules around foreign ownership of media, specifically affecting the ability of news channel TVN24, owned by U.S. media company Discovery Inc, to operate.
The bill has soured ties between NATO-member state Poland and the United States at a time of heightened tension in eastern Europe amid what some countries see as increased Russian assertiveness.
It has also fueled wider fears about attacks on media freedoms that have been running high since state-run oil company PKN Orlen said last year it was taking over a German-owned publisher of regional newspapers.
The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has long said that foreign media groups have too much power in the country and distort public debate.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters, PAP