PSL politicking suspected motive behind change of TVP management board

The Public Television (TVP) supervisory board dismissed Marian Zalewski from TVP's management board effective today. He will be replaced by former deputy head of the Sports and Tourism Office (UKFiT) Czeslaw Jermanowski. Jermanowski will now supervise all news programming. The members of the supervisory board are reluctant to comment on the dismissal. However sources say the change was urged by Polish Peasant Party (PSL) president Jaroslaw Kalinowski through the PSL members on the board. "Zalewski is close to former PSL president Waldemer Pawlak who remains in conflict with Kalinowski," said one PSL deputy. Currently the TVP management board consists of five members. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4)