Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has vetoed a bill that would bar majority foreign ownership of media outlets passed by the country’s parliament in August, the Associated Press reports. The bill, prohibiting any non-European entity from owning more than a 49% stake in TV or radio broadcasters in Poland, would only have affected TVN, a 24-hour news broadcaster majority-owned by US-based Discovery Communications. Duda faced pressure both internally and from abroad, as mass protests broke out in support of TVN last week while the US State Department warned of consequences for the bill’s passage. Poland has experienced quite a bit of democratic backsliding since Duda’s “Law and Justice Party” came into power in 2015 and the measure was seen as an effort to silence an independent press. Poland’s rank has dropped from 18th to 64th on the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index since 2015.