-- GW ON ANOTHER ELEMENT OF THE WARSAW REPRIVATIZATION SCANDAL - as Małgorzata Zubik writes: “A deceased owner represented by a deceased custodian, a man from Ukraine with the same last name signing the deed – this is how the plot at Piękna 49 was reprivatized and sold to a company that built an office building on it.” http://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,23274348,afera-reprywatyzacyjna-w-warszawie-jak-miasto-piekna-reprywatyzowalo.html

-- WE WILL NOT ALLOW ZANDBERG TO RUN AGAINST ŚPIEWAK - says Adrian Zandberg in an interview with Jakub Majmurek in Krytyka Polityczna: “Razem has the will and readiness to reach an agreement. Coalition talks are ongoing, and we will announce their results soon. I reassure you: we will certainly not allow a situation where Adrian Zandberg and Jan Śpiewak run against each other. That would be absurd, of course.”

-- BEHIND SMILING TRZASKOWSKI ARE CIVIC PLATFORM COUNCILLORS WHO HANDED WARSAW OVER TO DEVELOPERS AND THE REPRIVATIZATION MAFIA: “I hope that in the second round, there will be a candidate from our list. I am very curious myself how the liberals will behave if a social candidate stands against PiS in the second round. They talked so much about 'the most important thing is to vote against PiS,' but I am strangely sure that they will find a thousand reasons to wriggle out of it. If we manage to build a social list, it will be a very interesting campaign. Civic Platform will have a lot of trouble, because behind Trzaskowski's smiling face hide the same Civic Platform councilors who handed Warsaw over to developers and the reprivatization mafia. In Warsaw, better than anywhere else, it is also evident that the Civic Platform's promise of modernization – very modest, conservative, and paved with concrete – has simply been exhausted. Thinking about social services, about a city for people, not cars, of course, exceeds the horizons of Civic Platform. Warsaw has moved forward, it's time for Warsaw's politics to follow.”

-- CIVIC PLATFORM ARE RIGHT-WINGERS - says Zandberg: “With Schetyna and his team? That would make no sense. Just listen to them – they are right-wingers, they directly say that Partia Razem is the enemy. They openly announce that they will not agree to left-wing social policy, to easing the anti-abortion law, to a secular state. Endorsing Schetyna, meaning replacing Kaczyński with a man who will continue to pursue anti-woman, clerical, conservative policies, on his knees before corporations – that doesn't interest us. Razem will vote in the new Sejm for specific solutions. We take our commitments to voters seriously. We are going to the Sejm to defend their rights.” http://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/zandberg-razem-rozmowa/

-- MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI WRITES THAT SUCH A MORAWIECKI CAN LEAD THE RIGHT TO VICTORY: “The enthusiastic reaction of the hall was not forced. It seems that a moment has arrived when Prime Minister Morawiecki clearly outlined his plan, and the party's voters and activists received a clear message about why there was a change of head of government.”

-- MORAWIECKI FOUND THE RIGHT TONE - writes Karnowski: “The Prime Minister has found the right tone from the time of his greatest successes. A vision of a strong, modern economy with a strong note of social sensitivity and a strong patriotic accent – this is how Mateusz Morawiecki won over Poles. And today he spoke like this again!” https://wpolityce.pl/m/twoje-finanse/390210-to-jest-nowe-500-plus-tym-razem-dla-przedsiebiorcow-taki-morawiecki-jest-w-stanie-poprowadzic-prawice-do-kolejnego-zwyciestwa

-- MORAWIECKI ENTERED THE TRIBUNES' SHOES FOR THE FIRST TIME - Jacek Gądek: “But this is already serious campaigning. Mateusz Morawiecki has stepped into the shoes of a rally tribune for the first time. He is no longer a somewhat stiff prime minister, as during his exposé in the Sejm, but he has started to ignite emotions. The main point, however, is not Morawiecki's rhetorical and acting skill, which he has clearly honed, but the concrete promises – his and Deputy Prime Minister Beata Szydło's.” http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,23270487,pis-wyprowadzil-efektowna-kontre-morawiecki-po-raz-pierwszy.html#Z_mBoxNajcz

-- THE SLOGAN "DEFEND SELF-GOVERNMENT FROM PIS" MUST SOUND EXCEPTIONALLY FUNNY IN WROCŁAW - Marcin Celiński: “The Civic Coalition convention was from another planet. I appreciate the marketing efficiency and self-discipline of politicians publicly professing love for each other and competing in the breadth of their smiles. But beyond worn-out phrases – defend self-government from PiS, from 'Misiewiczes,' our cities should be cool and open – I see no arguments why a voter should give up a lower CIT and road repairs in their municipality. The fundamental problem also returns – credibility. The slogan 'defend self-government from PiS' must sound exceptionally funny in Wrocław – given the push for the former deputy chairman of this party to become mayor.”

-- A MATCH WHERE ONLY ONE TEAM PLAYS AND ONLY ONE SCORES GOALS, EVEN OWN GOALS - continues Celiński: “I get the impression that we are constantly observing a match where one team consistently dominates the field, and only that one scores goals, even own goals.” https://marcincelinski.blog.polityka.pl/2018/04/15/dwie-konwencje-dwie-planety/?nocheck=1

-- EUROCOMPROMISE IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN - writes Andrzej Stankiewicz: “The PiS leadership decided that in a pro-European society – where farmers receive subsidies from the Union and local governments receive funds for investments – prolonging an increasingly incomprehensible war with Brussels is harmful. In this situation, eurocompromise is also an extremely important element of the launched campaign. And like all previous ones, it puts the unifying opposition of Civic Platform and Modern in an extremely difficult situation.”

-- PIS IS CREDIBLE THANKS TO FULFILLED PROMISES - continues Stankiewicz: “The ruling camp hopes that such direct payments – tested during the '500 Plus' program – will influence the political tastes of Poles. Today, PiS can promise voters anything because it is credible due to the fulfilled social promises from the last campaign.” https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/portfel-i-piesc-kaczynskiego-152701

-- THIS CONVENTION SHOWED THAT MATEUSZ IS A CANDIDATE FOR LEADER - A PERSON FROM PMM'S CIRCLE IN THE ARTICLE BY AGATA KONDZIŃSKA AND MICHAŁ WILGOCKI in GW: “– This convention showed that Mateusz is a candidate for leader. For the first time, he didn't speak like a technocrat, he was more natural, he had many interesting phrases, it's evident he worked on his speech – says a person from the prime minister's circle.”

-- KACZYŃSKI HAD TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM ZIOBRO - in the GW article: “Ziobro was supposed to be the last speaker at the convention. Unexpectedly, however, Jarosław Kaczyński spoke again. – Zbyszek went against the grain, the established line was simple: we talk about the future, about a concrete offer, about family, about entrepreneurs, these are the groups we aim to reach. And Ziobro comes out and scares with stricter laws. Kaczyński had to distance himself from that – says a person from the party leader's circle. The PiS leader praised Ziobro for speaking so nicely, but at the same time emphasized that his proposals concern one percent of Poles, while the plans presented earlier concern the majority.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23274530,nowe-obietnice-obozu-wladzykoalicja-obywatelska-chce-obronic.html

-- TWO CONVENTIONS, TWO WORLDS - front page of GPC.

-- PIS IS DEALING THE CARDS AGAIN - headline in DGP.

-- PIS CAMPAIGN STARTS WITH MORAWIECKI'S FIVE - front page of RZ.

-- PIS TAKES THE INITIATIVE - Dominika Wielowieyska: “Despite the opposition's good offensive regarding bonuses, PiS is now regaining the initiative – and may make up for losses in the polls.”

-- NO ONE CAN REMEMBER THE OPPOSITION'S PROPOSALS - Wielowieyska: “PiS's advantage over the opposition lies in its ability to formulate slogans – simple, memorable, catchy for the party's electorate, building on the success of '500+'. Civic Platform, even when it had interesting ideas, they were so complicated that no one can remember their content today.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23275479,po-dobrej-ofensywie-opozycji-w-sprawie-nagrod-pis-przejmuje.html

-- THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF FAKT ON THE CARNIVAL OF PROMISES - ROBERT FELUŚ: “Second signal. PiS is determined to rebuild its support, so the closer we get to the elections, first local government, and next year parliamentary, the more new promises we will receive. We had the beginning of this carnival on Saturday. Everyone heard something nice: young mothers and mothers with many children, parents of school-aged children, youth, small entrepreneurs, and seniors. And everyone who drives on often still-potholed Polish roads, because PiS will also take care of their condition. By adding another tax to the price of fuel? They already had a bad experience with that idea once.”

-- THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF FAKT ON THE STORM OF APPLAUSE FOR SZYDŁO: “Cracks appeared in the image of the party's all-powerful and infallible leader, Jarosław Kaczyński. One only needed to listen to the intensity and duration of the applause for the speakers. Former Prime Minister Beata Szydło, upon entering the stage, caused almost an ecstasy among the party audience, receiving a storm of applause.” https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/konwencja-wyborcza-pis-komentarz-roberta-felusia/j1lyejg

-- RZ CRITICALLY ON CIT - Krzysztof Adam Kowalczyk: “The idea to lower CIT to 9% for small companies is propagandistic, because small entrepreneurs, whom it is supposed to serve, usually do not conduct business in the form of companies. The previous reduction of CIT for them from 19% to 15% did not have a wide reach – the treasury estimated revenue loss at PLN 270 million annually. The problem of our economy is not high CIT, but its fragmentation, and a selective reduction of corporate tax will only perpetuate it. Entrepreneurs will try not to increase revenues above the threshold 'punished' by an increase in CIT from 9% to 19%. And they will rather shift part of their activities to another company. Therefore, if taxes are to be reduced, they should be reduced for everyone.” http://www.rp.pl/Opinie/304159940-Improwizowana-ucieczka-do-przodu.html&template=restricted

-- WITHOUT ORDER OR SENSE - Zuzanna Dąbrowska in RZ: “The point, however, is that for political, i.e., electoral, reasons, PiS is trying to carry out this redistribution in the manner of a general levy, without order or sense, and even a bit aggressively pushing banknotes into people's hands, instead of focusing on solving the problems for which citizens will have to spend money anyway.” http://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/180419556-Po-kongresie-PiS-Wyprawka-wyborcza.html

-- MORAWIECKI'S COSTLY OPERATIONS - Witold Gadomski in GW: “The Prime Minister, assuring that thanks to his government's policy, we can afford greater social spending, did not take into account that the economy is at the peak of its business cycle. He did not warn PiS activists, nor viewers watching on TV, that the economic situation is never eternal and it is worth thinking about sustaining it, as well as about a scenario for worse times.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23270312,mateusz-morawiecki-wytrawny-zongler-liczbami.html

-- KARCZEWSKI CRITICALLY ON THE PROPOSAL FOR FAMILY VOTING - says to Jacek Nizinkiewicz in RZ: “Deputy Prime Minister Gowin's proposal would require a constitutional amendment, and I don't think that will happen.”

-- ON ALIENATING VOTERS BY CIVIC PLATFORM - JACEK ŻAKOWSKI in GW: “Schetyna can field whomever he wants. In Wrocław – Ujazdowski, in Warsaw – Giertych, in Krakow – Dorn. His party, his decision. Perhaps for these names – as Szubartowicz writes – Civic Platform will attract some PiS and PiS-like voters. But it will alienate voters who dislike authoritarian-conservative-clerical populism.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23274551,schetyna-moze-brac-pisowcow-na-poklad-jezeli-chce-isc-ku-autorytarno-konserwatywnemu.html

-- HAS HALICKI GONE MAD? - Fakt.

-- JARUZELSKA IS GOING FOR POWER - cover of Duży Format GW.

-- JARUZELSKA TELLS TOMASZ KWAŚNIEWSKI ABOUT HER CANDIDACY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT: “I have a lot of humility, I believe that starting something in local government is grassroots work, organic work. And I am certainly not a person who believes they have the qualifications to become the President of Poland. Of course, I cannot completely rule it out, because if you had asked me a year ago if I would enter politics, I would have thought you were crazy. 'Never say never,' but today it seems absolutely impossible to me.”

-- JARUZELSKA ON ADOPTION BY SAME-SEX COUPLES: “I believe that the suffering of a same-sex couple who cannot adopt a child is less than that of a child who would be adopted by them and consequently exposed to harassment.” http://wyborcza.pl/duzyformat/7,127290,23267909,monika-jaruzelska-idzie-po-wladze-rozmowa-tomasza.html

-- NATIONALISTS TRAMPLE ON HOLY PLACES - front page of GW: “The BHP Hall is managed by the Solidarity Promotion Foundation. Did the trade union authorities know that nationalists were supposed to meet there? - No comment – replies Marek Lewandowski, spokesperson for 'S'.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23274560,narodowcy-profanuja-swiete-miejsca-kto-wpuscil-onr-do-sali.html

-- PIOTR SKWIECIŃSKI ON DEFENDING THE PLAQUE OF ROSA LUXEMBURG: “Why is this curiosity worth noting? Because it is a manifestation, one of many, of the main opposition newspaper losing its political and self-preservational sense. The people at 'Wyborcza' are increasingly drowning in radicalism, and increasingly unwilling to behave tactically. For many years, in order to achieve the strategic goal of not provoking the opposition of the Polish Church towards joining the European Union, 'GW' managed to stifle its own voice and blunt the edge of anti-Catholic emotions that already dominated the editorial office. Today, they are unable and unwilling to impose similar restrictions on themselves.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/390374-towarzyszka-roza-jako-element-czegos-wiekszego-czyli-wsciekanie-prawicy-jako-wartosc-sama-w-sobie

-- BIRTHDAYS: Dawid Dziama, Agnieszka Szypielewicz, Sławomir Majman, Piotr Benedykt Zientarski, Karina Kostrzewa Dowgielewicz.