President Kwasniewski's begins election campaign with giveaway in Kielce

Incumbent President Aleksander Kwasniewski started his Presidential campaign in Kielce by handing 30 keys to newly constructed apartments to Kielce citizens. He also opened the Photonics department of the Kielce Technical University and received an honorary citizenship to Kielce. For Kwasniewski, who started his last presidential campaign in 1998 in Kielce, this place is almost "magic". During a news conference the President was asked who was paying for the trip. The President said he was a state official and all his journeys are paid for by the state. He added his predecessor Lech Walesa did the same, to which the crowd applauded. In related news, Kwasniewski has just gained a new rival in the Presidential race. Jolanta Zytkiewicz a businesswoman from Warsaw has registered as a candidate and pledges to stop Polish-European Union negotiations, relinquish Polish membership in NATO and the UN. She also wants to abolish Sejm. When asked if she had ever been treated psychiatric for illness she said she was in perfect mental health. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1, A20, Gazeta Wyborcza, page 8) J.K.