WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer-turned-firebrand populist who was briefly deputy prime minister in a shaky government and who was later disgraced by a sex scandal, has died ...

THE news came out of nowhere, stunning everyone in Poland. Yesterday Andrzej Lepper, a populist politician who rose from a thuggish rabble rouser to deputy prime minister, was found hanged in the ...

Polish lawmakers stripped outspoken anti-establishment politician Andrzej Lepper of parliamentary immunity Friday, opening the door to his prosecution on slander charges and a possible prison term of ...

Andrzej Lepper, a Polish populist politician who rose from pig farmer to deputy prime minister of, has died aged 57 in what police suspect to be a suicide. The PAP news agency said Lepper had hanged ...

The BBC's Tim Whewell profiles the politician leading opposition to EU enlargement in Poland. Andrzej Lepper went through the last Polish election sporting an Elvis-style quiff and a sunbed tan - but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice party on Thursday announced it had formed a coalition government ...

THE blockades were meant to bring Poland to a halt on Tuesday. They didn't. But Andrzej Lepper and his Self-Defence party are threatening months of countrywide direct action, until the free-marketeers ...

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Warsaw that a populist politician named Andrzej Lepper has become an embarrassment for Poland's political establishment. Lepper's "Self Defense Party" came in third in the ...

Polish prosecutors have charged a former deputy prime minister, Andrzej Lepper, with soliciting sex from two women who worked for his party. Mr Lepper, who heads the populist Self-Defence Party, ...