Playing the odds: Jamrozy to replace state lottery head

The new supervisory board of the state lottery Totalizator Sportowy (TS) will meet today in the Treasury Ministry building and, most likely, dismiss president Slawomir Sykucki. The suspended president of insurer Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU), Wladyslaw Jamrozy, is rumored to be a candidate for his replacement. As Sykucki says whenever a supervisory board of a state-owned company meets in the Ministry building, a dismissal of the president of the company is a certain result. "I cannot exclude that Wladyslaw Jamrozy will be a better president than myself. During my term in office the state budget income from TS grew nine-fold," said Sykucki. He is considered to be connected to the opposition Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) which could be the main reason for his dismissal. (Rzeczpospolita, page B2) T.J.