-- TRZASKOWSKI ON THE KANTAR POLL FOR 300 AND CRITICISM OF UJAZDOWSKI - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/04/12/

-- JAN ŚPIEWAK ON HIS 7% IN A SCENARIO WITH DWORCZYK'S CANDIDACY: 7 percent support in today's Kantar presidential poll @300polityka! Thank you for your trust. This is an encouragement to continue working for Warsaw. Without the support of the political and media establishment, without the support of big business, but with your help. Thank you https://twitter.com/JanSpiewak/status/984328825747267584

-- ADRIAN ZANDBERG ON THE POLL FOR 300: Young Poles are fed up with the conservative establishment of PO-PiS. According to the Warsaw poll @300polityka, I am winning among the youngest voters – 37% support. Thank you! https://twitter.com/ZandbergRAZEM/status/984330132205826048

-- PIOTR ZAREMBA: ON SEVERAL KEY ISSUES, PIS HAS FOUND COMMON GROUND WITH THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS - writes in DGP: "The party still has potential. Because even if it stumbles ten times, on several key issues it has found common ground with the majority of voters – from resistance to immigration to moves towards a smaller income gap. But the spell of poll Teflon is weakening. New factors are emerging. – Our cadres are tired of governing, nervousness is creeping into the ranks, and then it's easier to make a false step – says a PiS minister".

-- MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO JUDICIAL LAWS ARE MORE A SIGN OF CUNNING THAN A DIFFERENT GOVERNING PHILOSOPHY - ZAREMBA CONTINUES: "This division symbolizes the behind-the-scenes struggle over a compromise with the European Union. The concessions made by Morawiecki are more than modest. Minor modifications to judicial laws are more a sign of cunning than a different governing philosophy. The problem is that even such cunning contradicts the rhetoric of a revolutionary party".

-- KACZYŃSKI MAINTAINS TACTICAL DEXTERITY - ZAREMBA IN DGP: "He still maintains tactical dexterity. He skillfully distanced himself from President Duda's veto on the degradation law, which suited him. Please find at least one contemporary statement from the party leader where he himself demands such accountability for martial law. The losses due to divergences within the camp are not significant here, although PiS will face the problem of arranging relations with an increasingly distant president."

-- A GOVERNMENT MEMBER CITED BY ZAREMBA ON THE DECREASED EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNING BY MINISTERS PARALYZED BY FEAR: "The leader is maintaining vitality and there's no need to bid him farewell prematurely. However, the question of whether the bumper tactic will start to weaken the still strong ruling camp is becoming a daily concern. There is also something else: the aforementioned fatigue, typical for the mid-term, but... – A revolutionary party overcomes the routine of its subordinate cadres but cannot rely on them or trust them. Because, apart from purely party appointees, they are by definition alien. Ministers have to do everything themselves, and on top of that, they are paralyzed by fear of the leader. This leads to decreasing governing effectiveness – reports a government member". http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/opinie/artykuly/572492,zaremba-prezes-kaczynski-rzady.html

-- THE MARCH AS A PRELUDE TO A THAW - on the front page of DGP (Osiecki, Parafianowicz, Potocki): "According to DGP information, cooperation in the field of security will be unfrozen first. Not only the President of Israel, but also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the heads of civilian and military intelligence will fly to Poland. Relations with the government in Jerusalem could have improved much earlier, were it not for the poorly received words of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In February, in response to a question from an Israeli journalist, he spoke of 'Jewish perpetrators' of the Holocaust. According to DGP information, this led to the breakdown of talks on a Polish-Israeli declaration that was intended to resolve the dispute at the political level."

-- TIMMERMANS SEES PROGRESS IN DIALOGUE WITH WARSAW - headline in GW.

-- DUAL INVESTIGATION INTO VAT FRAUD - front page of DGP (Osiecki, Godusławski, Chądzyński): "The prosecution is accelerating its work on determining whether officials of the PO-PSL government neglected the fight against VAT fraud. This is fuel that PiS is counting on in connection with the parliamentary investigative committee." http://gospodarka.dziennik.pl/podatki/artykuly/572473,sledztwo-vat-prokuratura-przypieszone-prace.html

-- ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ: THE CLIMATE AROUND MACIEREWICZ IN PIS IS WORSENING, AS HE DRAMATICALLY DEFENDS HIS LAST BASTION: "The climate for Antoni Macierewicz in PiS is clearly deteriorating. This means that the new Smolensk report announced by him today is a dramatic attempt to defend the last bastion of power that remains for him – precisely Smolensk."

-- KACZYŃSKI ABOLISHES THE DOGMA OF MACIEREWICZ'S INFALLIBILITY - STANKIEWICZ CONTINUES: "The leader knows how to send kisses of death like no one else. He likes to do it, for example, as he did during the anniversary of the disaster. While thanking those involved in the monthly commemorations for years, he placed Macierewicz in the middle of the pack. And he summarized his Smolensk activities thus: – Many years of very hard work, many successful and unsuccessful experiments, many confirmed and unconfirmed hypotheses. This is proof that a Copernican revolution has taken place in Kaczyński – and therefore in PiS. The dogma of Smolensk infallibility of Macierewicz has been abolished. Knowing this, one should – according to Kaczyński's suggestion – look at the mentioned technical report as a set of experiments and hypotheses, perhaps successful, perhaps unsuccessful."

-- TVP'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS MACIEREWICZ SHOWS THE ATTITUDE OF THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLES OF PIS - STANKIEWICZ: "The leadership circles of PiS have clearly shown their attitude towards Macierewicz: TVP, reflecting the situation in the ruling camp, ignored the presentation of the report. TVP Info broadcasted rather insignificant hearings before the Amber Gold investigative committee at that time, and in TVP1's 'Wiadomości' (News), Macierewicz was given a brief mention in the middle of the program. There was not a word about the theses of his report, but there was a statement from Kaczyński that sometimes Macierewicz succeeds, and sometimes he doesn't. Macierewicz's star in PiS is fading for the same reason it shone: because of Smolensk." https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/antoni-macierewicz-broni-sie-smolenskiem/7ynln05

-- MACIEREWICZ HAS NO FUTURE - Magdalena Rubaj in Fakt: "No one in PiS takes Antoni Macierewicz (70) and the findings of his subcommittee seriously anymore. Politicians agree that they are only waiting for the prosecutor's findings, not those of the former Minister of National Defense's team. Yesterday's presentation of the 'technical report' by Macierewicz's subcommittee did not attract much interest among PiS politicians." https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/macierewicz-nie-ma-w-pis-przyszlosci/pwscryr

-- AGNIESZKA KUBLIK: CATASTROPHE LOOMS OVER MACIEREWICZ: "On Wednesday, 'Wiadomości,' and on Tuesday, President Andrzej Duda publicly humiliated Macierewicz. When asked about clarifying the cause of the disaster, he said: 'The cause of the tragedy will be possible to explain primarily thanks to the work of prosecutors.' That is, not Macierewicz's subcommittee. It is certain now: a catastrophe looms over Macierewicz. And not the Smolensk one. His own. This catastrophe is now beginning to materialize." http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23258671,katastrofa-wisi-nad-macierewiczem-nie-smolenska-jego-wlasna.html

-- THE LIES OF THE MILLER COMMISSION HAVE FINALLY COLLAPSED - headline in GPC. -- WHY I TOLD MACIEREWICZ HE WAS A LIAR - WOJCIECH CZUCHNOWSKI IN GW: "I did not coordinate this with the editorial staff. I spoke on behalf of those whom Macierewicz and PiS are destroying and humiliating. On behalf of civil servants, aviation experts, and Polish Army officers who investigated the Smolensk disaster reliably and responsibly. (...) I couldn't stand it anymore. I decided that the time had come to stop this terrible theater. And to tell the liar to his face who he is." http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23257625,czuchnowski-dlaczego-powiedzialem-macierewiczowi-ze-jest-klamca.html

-- DOROTA KANIA IN GPC ON CZUCHNOWSKI: "Well, Wojciech Czuchnowski turned out to be a ridiculous, small man who, to kill the last remnants of his conscience, shouts loudly, giving vent to his emotions. He wants to impose his false narrative on others, just like classic influence agents do." https://gpcodziennie.pl/86739-podrygiwstyluagenturywplywu.html

-- SENATOR ANDERS HAS GONE OFF THE RAILS - headline in Fakt.

-- 81% POSITIVE ABOUT KACZYŃSKI'S PROPOSALS - POLL FOR WP: "An overwhelming majority of them (as many as 81%) assess his idea positively, with 57% 'definitely positively' and 'rather positively' – 24%, while only 5% negatively. 14% of respondents have no opinion on this matter." https://opinie.wp.pl/sondaz-dla-wp-polacy-jednoznacznie-o-obnizeniu-poslom-pensji-6240005800450177a

-- SHE RETURNED THE TENEMENT TO THE CLEANERS - Fakt about HGW: "This will be the first case in the reprivatization commission where the documents clearly show a complete lack of interest from the city authorities in the fate of the residents! It concerns a tenement house in Warsaw's Wola district at ul. Dahlberga 5. Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (66) would have a very difficult time proving that she was unaware of the residents' suffering. First, she handed them over to the rule of 'tenement cleaners,' and then left them to themselves for 9 long years!" https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/hanna-gronkiewicz-waltz-oddala-kamienice-czyscicielom/j60rp3c

-- JAKUB MAJMUREK ON THE POLITICIZATION OF THE SMOLENSK TRUTH: "In a situation where the 'truth about Smolensk' becomes so deeply politicized, establishing a universal, socially acceptable truth about the events of eight years ago becomes increasingly difficult, if not impossible. The side that has invested so many of its political resources in the assassination hypothesis will never accept even the most obvious evidence that there was no assassination. Even if the Russians returned the wreckage to Poland, and a new commission, with experts accepted by PiS, conducted even more thorough research into the tragic accident, Antoni Macierewicz with another group of experts would still sell his supporters new, wild speculations." http://m.newsweek.pl/opinie/dlaczego-katastrofa-smolenska-niczego-nas-nie-nauczyla-,artykuly,425873,1.html

-- LOT PILOTS ARE PROTESTING BEFORE MAY 1ST HOLIDAY - GW: "Latvian airline airBaltic wants to hire a hundred new pilots and is looking for them in Warsaw. LOT pilots, tired of poor treatment at the company, went to the meeting." http://wyborcza.pl/7,155287,23253976,piloci-lot-zainteresowani-praca-w-airbaltic-nie-chodzi-o-kase.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Joanna Mucha, Jarosław Kalinowski, Iwona Sulik, Tomasz Bielecki.