Presidential candidate sues TVP for biased coverage of pensioners meeting

Presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke is suing public broadcaster TVP for zl. 100,000 for an allegedly biased report of his meeting with voters, broadcast on Aug. 3. TVP said in its report, "[Korwin-Mikke] told pensioners who came to his meeting, that the best advice for small pensions is to wash a car for zl. 5. One of the pensioners followed this advice." Leszek Samborski, deputy head of Korwin-Mikke's party, the Union for Realistic Policy (UPR), said on the TVP report, "This is a scandal, the material had been terribly manipulated." Korwin-Mikke is demanding that TVP pay him zl. 50,000, send zl. 50,000 to charity and apologize. On the electoral court's advice the two parties decided to start talks on settling the matter out of court. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4) T.J.