Kwasniewski urges the political isolation of Samoobrona from all sides

President Aleksander Kwasniewski yesterday stepped in to the row over the actions of Samoobrona and its leader Andrzej Lepper. In an interview on TVN24, Kwasniewski said, "If Samoobrona continues on its wholly irresponsible track, set by Andrzej Lepper, then it should be isolated by a very wide democratic front, from the Left to the Right, from the Right to the Left." Samoobrona has still failed to respond to a request from the prosecutor's office for it to deliver the evidence referred to by Lepper when, in a speech to the Sejm, he accused a number of politicians of accepting bribes. Instead the party sent the office a shorthand note of Lepper's speech. In a related development, the Left-wing Trybuna published a letter supposedly written by Krzysztof Rutkowski in which the famous detective and Samoobrona Sejm deputy orders his employees to destroy evidence referred to by Lepper in his speech. Rutkowski insisted, however, "This letter is an impertinent and treacherous falsification." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) P.W.