Storm over sexual harassment gathers pace

He clarified that his comment referred only to Lepper and not to Sejm Deputy Stanislaw Lyzwinski, the main suspect in the affair. The accusations caused a storm within the Self-defense party and it is highly probable that Lyzwinski will be thrown out. "Lyzwinki will be burnt at the stake. But this is only to satisfy the general public, since he will continue to cooperate with Lepper," says a Rzeczpospolita source. Lyzwinski has not made any public appearances since the accusations were revealed.Meanwhile, journalists have found more women who claim that prominent Self-defense politicians offered them employment in exchange for sex. One of them is Anna Rutkowska, a former expert for Self-defense, who claims that Deputy Kazimierz Zdunowski told her that she would receive payment for the work she had done for the parliamentary club only if she had sex with him. Zdunowski denies the charges. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1,3) E.B.