TVP abandons plans to have auditor verify management board candidates

National Television (TVP) has cancelled the tender for an auditor company, which would evaluate the candidates hoping to become members of TVP's new management board. Due to this, the supervisory board of the broadcaster was unable to make a preliminary selection among the 12 applicants. The tender was announced in the form of a price enquiry which it was sent out to 23 companies, out of which 12 replied to the offer. According to the tender commission all of them had formal mistakes. Tadeusz Kowalski from TVP's the supervisory board said that if the enquiry was more clear, then the companies who replied would have given better answers. Adam Pawłowicz, another supervisory board member, pointed out that choosing the auditor by the current management board was controversial, bearing in mind that its president, Robert Kwiatkowski, was also taking part in the competition to preside over the broadcaster. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) M.M.