Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper [ˈandʐɛj ˈzbʲigɲɛf ˈlɛppɛr] ( listen) (born 13 June 1954) is a Polish politician; the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland) political party.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development between 5 May 2006 and September 22, 2006, and again from 16 October 2006 to 9 July 2007, in the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński. Lepper's civil profession prior to entering pol...
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Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper [ˈandʐɛj ˈzbʲigɲɛf ˈlɛppɛr] ( listen) (born 13 June 1954) is a Polish politician; the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland) political party.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development between 5 May 2006 and September 22, 2006, and again from 16 October 2006 to 9 July 2007, in the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński. Lepper's civil profession prior to entering politics was farming in the village of Zielnowo, Pomerania.
He has been charged with several criminal offences and been implicated in several scandals.
Lepper was born in Stowięcino, a tiny hamlet of roughly 200 people, which has suffered greatly since Poland's transformation to a market-based economy because of its previous reliance on the socialist agricultural system.
Lepper is a farmer by trade. He did not complete his secondary education at the State Agricultural Technical School in Sypniewo and has no formal higher education. During the...
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