Polish PM doesn’t have a driving licence

AFTER announcing he doesn’t have a bank account and hands his salary over to his mother, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski yesterday made another revelation: he doesn’t hold a driving licence.

"I admit that I don’t have a licence, which I regret,” the 58-year-old told reporters who were accompanying him on the election campaign trail.

Asked if he planned to learn to drive, Kaczynski replied: ‘‘In life, nothing is impossible. Maybe I’ll do it one day.”

In May, Mr Kaczynski who is unmarried and lives with his mother, said he had never opened a bank account and that she held the purse-strings.

Mr Kaczynski said he had chosen not to open an account to avoid the risk that anyone trying to conjure up a scandal might transfer funds into it to try to discredit him.

Mr Kaczynski’s married identical twin Lech Kaczynski is president of Poland. The brothers, who founded Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party, won the country’s presidential and parliamentary electionsin 2005 after campaigning on an anti-corruption platform.