(((The pic is Aneta Krawczyk.)))
(((It was some kinda week last week for disgruntled political girlfriends. Here's a Polish eruption. It seems to lack any Internet or video-leaking angle, but it's very interesting that the principals claim that this was launched as a deliberate scheme to bring down the government. It probably WILL bring down the Polish government. This has got to be the simplest and cheapest government-wrecking mechanism ever invented, and it works repeatedly, all over the world. Big governments, small governments, Western, Eastern, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, wow.)))
Sex-for-work allegations rock Polish government
By Mary Sibierski
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday December 6, 2006
By Mary Sibierski, Warsaw-
Andrzej Lepper, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, along with a senior member of his populist Samoobrona (Self Defence) farmers' party were this week fighting off sex-for-work allegations. State prosecutors launched an investigation into the unsavoury allegations, which have brought into question Samoobrona's future in the turbulent three-party coalition government of Law and Justice (PiS) Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
The developments have also cast a dark shadow on the PiS's promise to push through a sweeping "moral revolution" to rid public life of unlawful activities. (((The bluenoses are especially vulnerable to any sexual spoke through the wheels.)))
Former Samoobrona local councillor Aneta Krawczyk alleges that in 2001 she was recruited by Samoobrona parliamentary deputy Stanislaw Lyzwinski to work in his constituency office after having sex with both him and Samoobrona leader Lepper. At the time, the latter did not hold a government post.
Krawczyk also claims that Lyzwinski is the father of her three-year-old daughter and that he had attempted to coerce her into an illegal abortion. (((As the new Polish government is virulently Catholic, the abortion pitch is dynamite.)))
After disappearing for two days, Lyzwinski calmly denied all Krawczyk's allegations at a Wednesday press conference.
However, he voluntarily suspended his party membership pending the outcome of a criminal investigation. The long-married MP also appeared to have a slightly purplish and swollen eyelid. (((Nice touch there.)))
Justice officials investigating the allegations are expected to carry out DNA tests to determine whether Lyzwinski is indeed the biological father of Krawczyk's child. (((Got no video, but got the DNA.)))
The woman who revealed her full identity in a lengthy interview on Poland's commercial TVN broadcast Tuesday, said she agreed to sex-for-work because as an unemployed single mother she was desperate to support her family. (((That doesn't explain why she's gone public now after dawdling along on the party payroll for six solid years; but she probably didn't go public all on her own, she was likely discovered, loaded, polished-up and fired-off like a cannon.)))
"I've never had anything in common with this lady, she's been put up to it by someone," Lepper told TVN, claiming she was being used in a political plot to oust Samoobrona from government.
"In no way do I see the possibility to work with people who could have committed such acts," Prime Minister Kaczynski said in reaction to the allegations, insisting he would wait for the outcome of the formal investigation before taking action.
Several other women quoted by Polish media also claim Lyzwinski solicited sexual favours in exchange for employment. (((Is it just him, or is this some kind of general casting-couch habit from the new political class? These antics look like they're straight out of the satirical Polish movie "The Career of Nikos Dyzma.")))
Opposition politicians have called for Lepper's immediate dismissal and the ousting of the populist Samoobrona from government.
(((At this point, it starts getting seriously weird.)))
It is not the first time the party has faced sexual abuse allegations.
Another Samoobrona member, serving as a member of the European Parliament, recently faced allegations of raping a sex worker in Belgium.
"How can you rape a prostitute?," Lepper asked reporters and chuckled in reaction to the charges.
His party controls 47 seats in Poland's 460-seat parliament. It entered a rocky three-way coalition which guarantees a majority for the PiS senior coalition partner.
The PiS's other junior coalition partner, the 29-seat Catholic-nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR), came under fire last week for alleged links to neo-Nazis. (((Here the centipede videos finally show up. No sex. Just Nazis. Still, how could anybody be a Polish pro-Nazi? They think the 1939 invasion was a Nazi liberation of some kind, is that it? Who are such people? Does not compute.)))
Polish media published videos and photographs appearing to show LPR deputy party leader Wojciech Wierzejski and a party administrative assistant attending a neo-Nazi style party and a concert organised by the All-Poland Youth - the LPR's youth wing.
Roman Giertych, at once LPR leader Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, has flatly denied any links to either of the events and filed a criminal complaint against the organisers of one of the neo-Nazi parties.
The public propagation of totalitarian ideologies, including Communism and Fascism, is illegal in Poland.
Giertych is also known as the principal mentor of the All-Poland Youth.
Prosecutors are also investigating the alleged neo-Nazi events.
The results of November local government elections revealed a decline in the popularity of Samoobrona and the LPR to the point where both would be unlikely to score the minimum 5 per cent of votes to enter parliament.
