http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11595712/Polish-presidential-election-legalise-child-pornography-and-scrap-benefits-promises-candidate.html

Polish presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke explains his plans to scrap all benefits, legalise child pornography and stop women from voting, as Poland votes for a new president

A Polish Presidential candidate whose party has allied with Ukip in the European Parliament has called for child pornography to be legalised.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who is a rank outsider in Sunday’s presidential poll, said that child abusers should be “very severely punished” but said that pornography created without child abuse should be legal. He also claimed that Margaret Thatcher once told him that it would be better for women if they did not have the vote.

“I can buy pornography at home, I can look at it, I can even have child pornography on my computer – why not, it’s my computer, my home, and I can look,” he said.

“I very strongly object to abuse of children, but that has nothing to do with child pornography. If you create child pornography absolutely in the computer without any child being abused, is it OK or not? It should not be punished. Looking at that is not punishable, it is punishable to abuse children. The founding fathers of the United States would be shocked that somebody can be punished for keeping and looking at something in his own home, it is absolutely against the American constitution.”

The Poles vote on Sunday for president in nationwide balloting that is expected to see incumbent, Bronislaw Komorowski, re-elected - but not in the first round of balloting.

Ten other candidates are running in the election, but none are likely to receive the more than 50 per cent of the vote needed to avoid a May 24 runoff.

Some 40 per cent of Poles support Mr Komorowski, a center-right candidate, according to recent surveys that indicate he will most probably face Andrzej Duda, of the nationalist opposition Law and Justice party in a second round.