The eurosceptic Libertas party is setting up a branch in Poland ahead of June's European parliamentary election, its leader, Irish multi-millionaire Declan Ganley, announced on Sunday. "We want the 2009 EP elections to be a referendum against the Lisbon Treaty," Polish news media reported him telling sup-porters representing a handful of small rightist parties.
Ganley, who bankrolled a cam-paign leading to the rejection of the treaty by Irish voters last year, said he was not opposed to the European Union as such but to the Lisbon Treaty which he contends would limit member states' national sovereignty. "In all the countries where Libertas sets up branches, election coalitions will be created to draw up common lists of candidates," he added.