WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s new government dismissed executives from state media to restore “impartiality”, the Culture Ministry said on Wednesday, while a public news channel went off the air as Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s reform drive faced its first big test.

Tusk’s pro-European Union coalition took power last week from the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which critics say damaged judicial independence, soured European Union relations and turned state-owned media into an outlet for propaganda during its eight years in office.

Tusk’s plans for change, though, are facing a fight from the outset from the former ruling party.

Dismissals at state television, radio and news agency PAP on Wednesday came after the new parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution for restoring public media impartiality.

The resolution called on “all state authorities to immediately take action aimed at restoring constitutional order in terms of citizens’ access to reliable information and the functioning of public media”.

PiS sharply attacked the dismissals on Wednesday. Police were called as some PiS politicians appeared at state broadcaster TVP headquarters and other state media offices.

The state-run 24-hour news channel TVP Info, a strong critic of Tusk that has sought to portray him as dishonest and under the sway of Germany and Russia, stopped broadcasting.

“The end of TVPiS,” Civic Platform - the biggest party in the new government - said on social media platform X after TVP Info stopped airing.

The government has vowed to create stations that would take a more balanced approach to public service broadcasting.