Krzaklewski's campaign charged with offending religious sentiment of Poles

A teacher from Lidzbark Warminski, Wieslaw Czermak-Nowina, filed a complaint at the Legionowo prosecutor's office against presidential candidate Marian Krzaklewski for offending religious sentiment. At a campaign meeting in Legionowo Krzaklewski's election team performed a song praising their candidate. The melody of the song as well as the words, "Maryja-Maryjan" alluded to a chant praising the Virgin Mary known to every Catholic. The teacher says Krzaklewski and the head of his election team Wieslaw Walendziak are to blame. "On the one hand they say that [President Aleksander] Kwasniewski offends religious feelings of many Poles and on the other hand they do the same," said the teacher. "This song really sounds like a religious chant but I don't think it offends anybody's feelings," said Krzaklewski's election team spokesman Kajus Augustyniak. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 3)