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.
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.
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