Supervisory board members resign in disgust of TVP policy and president

Two months before their terms expire, TVP supervisory board members Anna Po powicz and Andrzej Liberadzki decided to resign from the board. They say th at this it in protest against the rest of the board who are constantly bloc king all attempts to depoliticize public TV. Their decision was a direct re sponse to the verdict of the majority of the board, people associated with the ruling SLD party, who voted to reject a motion concerning the suspension of the head of TVP, Robert Kwiatkowski. The motion was submitted twice by t he commission investigating the Rywin scandal. Popowicz and Liberadzki, mem bers of the Freedom Union (UW), were the only board members to support the motion. The rest of the top management claim that Kwiatkowski is only a wit ness in the Rywin case and his appearance before the commission does not ha ve any affect on the image of TVP on the market. Opponents argue otherwise, pointing to the fact that public trust in Lew Rywin is 3% and that in Kwiat kowski is just 4% thus the TVP boss should resign to save a crisis in confi dence in the broadcaster. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; ww w.onet.pl) A.K.