Cronies appointed to staff state-owned companies

Self-Defense leader Andrzej Lepper declared that, "The ruling parties should appoint their people to the supervisory boards of state-owned companies," while Ryszard Czarnecki from Self-Defense stated explicitly, "We want one post on the board of the KGHM copper concern. We already have our candidate. He has managed one of KGHM's subsidiaries." Law and Justice (PiS) however, declares that it will maintain strict criteria for candidates to the supervisory boards coming from Self-Defense and the League of Polish Families (LPR). "They have to be competent, experienced, honest and reliable and they cannot be suspected of being involved in any scandals," declared Adam Lipinski from PiS. Despite such a declaration, Law and Justice appointed an ethnologist as the president of the Gdansk Shipyard and a Law and Justice activist became the president of the Gdynia Shipyard. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 25) E.B.