Self-Defense under attack for 'bribing' women fighting for Alimony Fund

Self Defense's (Samoobrona) leader Andrzej Lepper said he does not exclude forming a coalition with the Polish Family League (LPR) and Polish Peasants Party (PSL) in the new Sejm. Lepper said he was all for conducting parliamentary elections this year, but he believed that the Sejm would only dissolve itself if there were further disagreements within the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which was quite unlikely. But it seems like Self Defense has already started preparing for the elections as press rumor has it that the party "buys out" women who are fighting to re-establish the state Alimony Fund. Self Defense allegedly finances holidays and lavish dinners while promising lucrative Sejm nominations for joining their party, thus making it impossible for them to collect signatures to re-establish the fund. Tomasz Markowski from Law and Justice (PiS) branded Self Defense's actions underhand: "Now when farmers are doing better and Self Defense is doing worse its leader is looking for new ways of survival." (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 8, 9)