Lodzkie

3rd September 2010

A recent vote in Lodz City Hall was falsified when one councillor voted twice, using the electronic registration card belonging to her party colleague who had momentarily left the chamber, Super Express revealed last Friday. In response to the accusation, Iwona Bartosik of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) held a press conference, at which her partner in crime, Jozef Niewiadomski, failed to show.

Undeterred, the SLD councillor mounted a robust defence of her actions, “At the request of Councillor Niewiadomski, who had to leave the chamber for health reasons, on his authority, I voted from his terminal. The Statute of the City of Lodz in no way prohibits voting by proxy. I didn’t mislea ...