Treasury maneuvers to recall lottery chairman Jamrozy

The Treasury Ministry has changed the by-laws of state lottery Totalizator Sportowy (TS) by reducing the number of votes its board of directors needs to recall a board member, a move intended to enable it to oust company chairman Wladyslaw Jamrozy. Under the new by-laws, a simple majority of votes is sufficient to change the board’s composition, which in this case is three out of five. The Finance Ministry has a right to have two representatives on the board while the Treasury is entitled to one. Jamrozy no longer has either the support of the Treasury or the Finance Ministry. The current situation is the opposite of that which occurred during the replacement of TS’s former chairman, Slawomir Sykucki, by Jamrozy in April 2000. After Sykucki was recalled by votes of three members of the Board, the Treasury decided that four votes would be needed to change the board’s composition. Currently Jamrozy can count on the support of the two TS employees on the board, as several weeks ago he proposed TS employees a 20% salary increase. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B1) M.T.