Former Polish president Lech Walesa says his retirement income is not quite enough to make ends meet, though it’s four times the national average. He once led the Solidarity trade union in its confrontation with the USSR, and served as Poland’s president from 1990 to 1995.
Walesa was the guest on the most recent episode of ‘Politicians’ Kitchen’, a video series produced by the tabloid Super Express. He told the presenters that he was doing a lecture tour at the age of 79 in order to complement his pension, RT said Tuesday.
“I’m doing this to make some money, because I don’t have any,” Walesa said. “I don’t care about money, I didn’t care at all, but it was enough for me, and now it’s not enough for me, so I have to make extra money.”
He revealed that his pension is 11,000 zloty (approximately $2,640), which the outlet described as “really gigantic” compared to the national average of 2,700 zloty.
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