As expected supervisory board votes to back TVP chairman

Robert Kwiatkowski will remain the chairman of TVP, the company's supervisory board decided on Friday. The motion was carried in a secret vote, with only two out of six members supporting the call to suspend Kwiatkowski. In the comment on its decision, the head of the board, Witold Knychalski, explained that, "The charge of manipulating the TV coverage of Rywin's case has no foundation". According to board member Boleslaw Sulik, "Suspending Kwiatkowski would mean yielding to political pressure," generated by the Sejm investigation commission. In related new Polish Family League (LPR) ousted Bohdan Kopczynski from its Parliamentary club after he refused to give his place in the Commission to party leader Roman Giertych. (Rzeczpospolita, Feb. 15-16, pp. A1, A3) J.K.