A DNA test has cleared Poland's deputy prime minister and agriculture minister Andrzej Lepper of allegations that he was the father of a party official's child.

Polish prosecutors have informed that Andrzej Lepper, leader of the left-wing populist Self-Defence party had been asked to take a paternity test as part on an investigations into allegations that he and a party associate recruited female workers in exchange for sex.

Speaking for Gazeta Wyborcza daily deputy prosecutor-general Jerzy Engelking said that DNA test confirmed that Lepper was not the father of the daughter of Aneta Krawczyk, a former Self-Defence councillor who is the chief witness in the case.

Krawczyk had previously alleged that Lepper associate Stanislaw Lyzwinski was the father of her child.

Lyzwinski was also cleared by a DNA test