Andrzej Lepper backed by SLD as new Rywin Commission member

The Self-Defense Parliamentary Club yesterday decided that the party's leader, Andrzej Lepper, will replace Deputy Renata Beger, as a member of the Sejm Commission investigating the Rywin affair. Beger has been dismissed from her seat in the Commission after she has resigned from her Parliamentary immunity and the Poznań-based prosecutor announced plans to charge her with forging signatures on her canditature list of support during the 2001 general election. The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has supported Lepper's candidacy. "The SLD mocks the work of the Commission and wants to make its final report look useless," said Commission member and Law and Justice (PiS) Deputy, Zbigniew Ziobro. "It is well known that the SLD is playing a cynical game and is insolently lying to the public opinion," said Ziobro adding that the SLD will benefit if, "the people holding power", who sent Rywin with a $17.5 million bribe to Agora are not uncovered. Civic Platform's Jan Rokita plans to oppose Lepper's candidacy. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.