Suspicion of fake signatures casts doubt on Samoobrona election list

The public prosecutor in Sosnowiec in Southwest Poland is examining the list of people who gave their support to Samoobrona candidates standing for election to parliament last year, on suspicion that some of the signatures may have been falsified. According to the Rzeczpospolita daily, the majority of signatures forwarded by the election committee in Sosnowiec to the election authorities were written in the same style, and the personal identity numbers provided also raised suspicions. Commenting on the case, a Rzeczpospolita source close to the investigation said that should the suspicions have surfaced soon after the election results were announced, it might have been necessary to repeat the vote. The Samoobrona election list was one of ten registered in Sosnowiec. Samoobrona's Michal Figlus won the local Sejm mandate. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) P.J.