Money can't buy me love, but it'll help you get on a Self-Defense election list

To find yourself on the list of Samoobrona (Self-Defense) candidates for the European Parliament, you have to declare your readiness to pay a certain amount of money, Piotr Ostrowski, the deputy head of the party in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodship, told the courts yesterday. However, he did not disclose how much he paid for his position as number 10 on the party's list in the aforementioned voivodship. The revelations came to light after the party's Małgorzata Sadowska took legal actions against Gazeta Wyborcza over another matter. She herself revealed that she stumped up zł.12,000 to find herself as number two on the Lublin list of candidates. Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Self-Defense confirmed that each candidate has to transfer funds for the campaign, although he claimed the amount paid did not influence the candidate's position. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, first place on the list in the Mazowieckie voivodship costs zł.200,000, third place requires zł.60,000, while the asking price for sixth place is zł.20,000. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4) A.K.