The government session will begin at 11:00. The agenda includes a report on public aid granted in the agriculture or fisheries sector in the Republic of Poland in 2022, and current matters.

At 12:00, a press conference will be held at the PiS headquarters with the participation of PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and the leader of the PiS parliamentary club, Mariusz Błaszczak.

At 12:00, the Senate Committee on European Union Affairs will issue an opinion on the Republic of Poland's accession to the European Public Prosecutor's Office.

At 17:30, the parliamentary committee on public finances will hold the first readings of the so-called budget-related bills for 2024 – proposals from the President and the government.

- We should respond to the latest attack on Ukraine in a language Putin understands: by tightening sanctions so he cannot produce new weapons from smuggled components and by giving Kyiv long-range missiles that will allow it to eliminate launchers and command centers - wrote Radosław Sikorski on Twitter.

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- June 9th, the European Parliament elections, will also bring a change in presidential policy. I believe that until then, until the EP campaign, we will be part of a political dispute or a political war. It's evident today that everything will be very, very difficult. The conflict will last until June; after June, a truce will inevitably follow, along with finding a formula for coexistence, meaning cooperation between the 'big' and 'small' palaces. This is essential for the state to function normally - stated Grzegorz Schetyna in "Rozmowa Piaseckiego" on TVN24.

- I am a supporter of agreement, of finding agreement, although I believe it won't be easy. Moreover, it will be difficult, because we need to look at the entire camp of the so-called United Right. A lot is happening internally there; we don't see it from the outside, but I believe there will be a search for a new arrangement, a leader, there will be problems in the Kaczyński-parliamentary club relations, a lot will happen there when writing these big scenarios – stated Grzegorz Schetyna in "Rozmowa Piaseckiego" on TVN24.

- It is ongoing, and it's difficult to assess the consequences of a battle when the fighting is still happening - stated Grzegorz Schetyna in "Rozmowa Piaseckiego" on TVN24.

- This is a very difficult scenario. Sienkiewicz is pursuing it consistently, and the question is where this consistency will end and what the end will be. Because I believe January 11th will also be a certain symbol, meaning the demonstration organized by PiS. They will, of course, escalate this resistance, the occupation of Plac Powstańców Warszawy, the TVP building. All of this will eventually come to an end - he continued.

- Ultimately, I believe, and this is something obvious, that the government's side, the right side, will prevail - he added.

- They will not go to prison [Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik] because the president will pardon them. I believe there will be a second pardon, which will be an admission that the first one was unlawful. They will not go to prison - stated Grzegorz Schetyna in the "Piasecki Conversation" on TVN24.

- We promised that there would be a law, and it will come as soon as possible. Not only Donald Tusk spoke about this, but the president also knows that we committed to it. I am certain that it will be presented within a few weeks. We will process it, discuss it at a government session, and we will discuss it at a Sejm session - stated Katarzyna Kotula on Polsat News's program "Graffiti".

- Unfortunately, I don't think we'll find a majority for [abortion] liberalization. There are many bills submitted, and I hope they will be processed quickly. After the new year, I think we even agreed on this with Marshal Hołownia - stated Katarzyna Kotula on the program "Graffiti" on Polsat News.

- The 11th of January is approaching, a day on which a demonstration will take place in Warsaw in defense of free speech, media freedom, and simply in defense of democracy, because we have a genuine problem with democracy today. To the extent that the problems that were discussed over the last 8 years were entirely fabricated, because who has ever seen a non-democratic state where the opposition operates peacefully, and a total opposition at that, very aggressive, brutal, without any limitations, where there are no restrictions on the right to demonstrate, where the majority of the media is against the government, a decisive majority, and also experiences no limitations, where normal elections of all kinds are held, and where, finally, power is changed with the help of a ballot, and these are only the most general elements that indicate that in Poland we were dealing with the functioning of a normal democratic state, where one serious dispute occurred concerning the interpretation of certain provisions regulating the appointment of judges to the Constitutional Tribunal – stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- Donald Tusk announced that the law will be applied as we understand it. This means that the law will be interpreted arbitrarily, and this in turn means that in fact it does not apply; simply the political will of the authorities applies. And these words turned out not to be thrown to the wind, but entirely serious. Well, the actions that are currently being taken, primarily against the media, but also announced against other institutions of public life, are completely illegal actions, where attempts are made to replace statutes with resolutions, where acts are carried out that are obviously completely forbidden by laws that are lex specialis in this case, in relation to the Commercial Companies Code - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- We are dealing with a great broken promise, we have new taxes, we are essentially seeing the liquidation of newly established institutions like the 'Cheap Credit' program, we are dealing with such a drastic misleading of public opinion as the issue of 60,000 tax-free [benefits] and one could multiply these tax [instances] - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- And how much, ladies and gentlemen, was earned in that very same TVP before? For example, Ms. Tadla, considering inflation – and one must consider inflation, because it amounted to about 50% over these 8 years, precisely 46% – earned 1.2 million zlotys. 800 thousand times 1.5 equals 1.2 million. Where are the differences you talk about here? And she certainly wasn't among those who earned the most, because, for instance, Mr. Lis earned a total, I believe, for his company, around 4 million. So, this number needs to be clearly increased again, and we must ask about his costs. There certainly were some, perhaps not small, but with absolute certainty, those earnings were significantly higher than those being discussed today. Fraud, misleading, breaking various kinds of rules, and above all, striving for this final outcome, that is, for Poland to essentially lose its independence – stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- It was like this, if this matter interests public opinion, because I'm not so very sure about that. Well, I just got home around that time and wanted to see what was on television. I saw there was no signal, I knew that at the same time, because we were together in Krakow, Marshal Terlecki returned. Yes, at 3 am, so I called Marshal Terlecki, and the Marshal confirmed to me that yes, indeed, there was no signal. Later, I called 2 more people, but they were asleep, they didn't answer the phone, and after a long consideration, I came to the conclusion that in this situation, one probably has to call the head of television. Although I know him incomparably less than President Kurski, whom I knew from his very young, and my relatively young years, but I know him a little bit already, and I took the risk, because it really wasn't the best social situation, but I took the risk and found out, and this made me very happy, that it turns out I don't have the right decoder and nothing else happened - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- I actually told someone about this, and somehow it spread. It was about whether TVP was turned off or not. This does not imply any dependency, it's simply a question of whether something works or not, and any politician, or indeed any citizen, can ask such a question if they know someone - he continued.

- The whole fairy tale about 'bosses on the phone' certainly applies to today's situation, because these are undoubtedly 'bosses on the phone,' people who have decided to break the law, to create a situation that provokes opposition among at least a very large part of the journalists, but also evokes contempt, deep contempt. Because here, the resemblance to the situation from the period of martial law is striking - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- Thank you very much for that question, because I haven't mentioned that specifically. Rulings are being made that are reminiscent of the worst times of communism. Contrary to various stories, including those from a very important gentleman, I participated in opposition activities from 1976, and from 1977, I was involved with the Intervention Bureau of KOR. We dealt with various abuses, including murders committed by the MO (PZPR's uniformed militia). Back then, there was a department in the Warsaw courts called the 'guard department,' where the most repulsive cases were handled. For instance, a family, through random circumstances, got into an argument with a policeman, was severely beaten by the militia, and then brought before the court for assaulting those policemen – stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- I will not go into details here. This department was headed by a woman who was also the First Secretary in all those courts located on Leszno Street. It so happened that roughly 20 years later, I saw this woman in a courtroom. It was during my case, where I was acquitted, as I had several criminal cases initiated against me at the time. In the second instance, she overturned that acquittal and sent it back for reconsideration. The case was eventually dismissed and had no further consequences. However, I was greatly astonished by her presence. And it might surprise you greatly when I asked Judge Strzembosz, whom I knew well then, perhaps very well, who this woman was. I learned that she not only remained in the judiciary but was also in charge of training; she was the head of training at that time – he continued.

- Both gentlemen [Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik] were convicted, and I have spoken about this in this chamber before, in a scandalous, completely unlawful manner, for fighting corruption. The current authorities do not want to fight corruption, because this is the authority of the Third Polish Republic system, a post-communist system, and one of the foundations of that system was precisely corruption, and that is why they were convicted - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- They have the right to participate in the Sejm sessions, and the pardon, which the President applied in certain special circumstances, is of course still valid. I hope that someday the people who committed these abuses will stand before a court and be punished with appropriate severity, because what they did is a very serious crime - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- This lawlessness is an assault on public media. I myself witnessed a security company entering the Polish Press Agency at 3 AM to take control of the PAP building. Colonel Sienkiewicz was delegated by Donald Tusk to take over public media using force. For the second time in history, the signal of Polish Television was cut off - stated Mariusz Błaszczak at a press conference.

- I guarantee Mr. Tusk, Bodnar, and Colonel Sienkiewicz that the legal basis will find them, not the other way around. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but justice will certainly prevail - he added.

- I know nothing about any Kozakiewicz gesture. Meaning, I know what the Kozakiewicz gesture is and I perfectly remember that beautiful moment that brought joy not only to Poland but to a large part of the world, but I haven't seen that gesture and I think it's simply some element of, I'll call it very gently and elegantly, manipulation - stated Jarosław Kaczyński at a PiS press conference.

- We invite all free Poles to come on January 11th to the Polish Parliament (Sejm) at 4 PM to express their protest against the practices of violating the constitution, violating the law, to express their protest against all these illegal actions that we are witnessing from the coalition of December 13th - stated Mariusz Błaszczak at a press conference.

Kolejna dobra wiadomość. Wojciech Kałuża - symbol tego, co najgorsze w PiS - odwołany z zarządu JSW S.A.

— Borys Budka (@bbudka) January 3, 2024

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a press conference that the dates of April 7th and April 21st, for the first and second rounds of local elections respectively, "seem to be the most probable."

The Public Finance Committee will not consider the supplementary budget bill for this year prepared by President Duda. This decision was made by MPs with a vote of 23 to 14, following a motion by Tomasz Trela. This means the committee will exclusively focus on the government's draft supplementary budget bill for 2024.

- *Today, I absolutely cannot find any justification to deal with a caricature of a supplementary budget bill authored by Andrzej Duda, which is dictated solely by political aspects. There is no substantive aspect or value here, and I propose that we, as a committee, focus on only one bill,* - said the Lewica MP during the deliberations.

30 people have been charged with corruption at the Prof. Alfred Sokołowski Specialist Hospital in Szczecin. According to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Szczecin, within the facility, surgical obesity treatments were performed out of turn in exchange for bribes of PLN 10,000. The money was allegedly channeled to doctors through the Transplantology Assistance Foundation in Szczecin. The scheme reportedly ran from 2008 to 2019, and its initiator was allegedly the Marshal of the Senate of the previous term, Tomasz Grodzki – the then-director of the hospital, as well as the founder of the foundation. He was not included in the indictment due to his immunity.

- I am not familiar with the indictment, the content of the indictment, but based on what the spokesperson for the Szczecin prosecution – one of Mr. Ziobro’s favorite prosecutor’s offices – has said, and listening to the nonsense he’s spouting, I have the impression that these are the last gasps of Ziobro’s prosecution, which has been hunting me for four years because I represented the Senate, which was a thorn in the side of the PiS government. At the same time, I regret that this type of repression is affecting 30 wonderful doctors, innocent people, simply because they cooperated with me – stated Tomasz Grodzki in an interview with TVN24.

- There is no mention of any corruption there. It mentions that the hospital received funds from the foundation – which is not a hospital foundation, but a city one, with branches in several cities – and that these funds were used for purchasing equipment, for training doctors, just as many foundations do in Poland. No one took any money directly; it wasn't even paid into the hospital, but rather into the foundation's account, according to my deep knowledge, entirely voluntarily – he continued.

- I will not be surprised if the court either sends back this bizarre indictment or doesn't want to consider it at all – the senator concluded.

- I don't know where it comes from or why information is being spread that President Andrzej Duda will yield, that he will sign a pardon for Maciej Wąsik and Mariusz Kamiński a second time - Grażyna Ignaczak-Bandych wrote on Twitter.

- We are not considering such a possibility. It's like signing a contract twice; it's a denial of one's own competencies. If Maciej Wąsik and Mariusz Kamiński are imprisoned, we will treat them as political prisoners, because without a doubt, we are dealing with political revenge - added the head of the Presidential Chancellery.

Macieja Wąsika i Mariusz Kamińskiego jeśli zostaną osadzeni w zakładzie karnym będziemy traktować jak więźniów politycznych, bo bez dwóch zdań mamy do czynienia z zemstą polityczną. 3/3 @Int_Wydarzenia @prezydentpl

— Grażyna Ignaczak-Bandych (@GIBandych) January 3, 2024