Presidential campaign spending reports put Kwasniewski in first place

Campaign committees of candidates who ran in Poland's presidential elections last year had until four o'clock yesterday to submit mandatory reports on their candidate's campaign financing. From the reports released so far, President Aleksander Kwasniewski has taken first place, spending almost zl.12 million, the maximum amount allowed by law, on funding his re-election campaign. In particular, his committee announced at a press conference that zl.1.3 million had been raised through contributions made by private companies; zl.2.2 million through donations by individuals; zl.1 million from anonymous donations; and zl.7 million from other sources, including election funds of the Social Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). Other reports show that Andrzej Lepper spent zl.55,700 on his campaign, Andrzej Olechowski zl.2 million on his, while Marian Krzaklewski spent some zl.10.7 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4)