Leader of Samoobrona (Self-Defence party) Andrzej Lepper speaks to the media at the Polish parliament in Warsaw on October 10. - REUTERS

WARSAW (Reuters):

The Polish Government faced pressure yesterday to dismiss a deputy prime minister after a woman accused him and other members of his party of recruiting employees in return for sex.

The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper published a front-page story accusing Andrzej Lepper, one of two deputy prime ministers and the leader of the leftist Self-Defence party, of giving a job in his party to a woman on condition that she had sex with him.

Lepper denied the allegations and called for an investigation by the public prosecutor's office.

"I had no sexual relations with this woman. I want this to be clarified immediately by prosecutors," he told reporters.

Poland's news agency PAP said the public prosecutor would start an inquiry into the case immediately.

Opposition parties called on Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to dismiss Lepper, who leads one of two small parties that support the main conservative Law and Justice party in the governing coalition.