In the spotlight: Renata Beger

Having previously only made the tabloid headlines, Beger found her words and image all over the quality press. Now Beger is portraying herself as a patriot, who, for the good of her country, caught evidence of PiS' "political corruption" on video. That's quite a metamorphosis for someone who just over three months ago was given a five-year suspended sentence for presenting forged signatures in support of her run for parliament.

Ironically, in the previous Sejm, Beger sat on the Deputies' Ethics Commission, as well as on the Public Finances Commission, which was surprising, considering that she only passed her Matura (high-school exit) exams in 2004. She is currently studying political science part-time at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Beger was also part of the special inquiry commission dealing with the so-called Rywingate scandal, from which she was later excluded. But rather than for her work on Sejm Commissions, she is better known for her slips of the tongue, for example when she called Kofi Annan "Annan Koffan," or declarations such as: "I like sex like a horse likes oats." 

Renata Beger is a member of SO and has stood behind its leader Andrzej Lepper through the hardest times, when he had minimal support. She is also the head of the Association of Defenders of the Polish Meat Industry and runs a farm with her husband.