-- JAKI PRESENTS REPORT ON WARSAW'S LOSSES FROM REPRVATIZATION, KIERWIŃSKI DEFENDS GRABEC - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/10/08/

-- FAKE NEWS DOOMED THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND - Anna Wittenberg in DGP: “The Civic Platform, with the help of manipulation, has thwarted the candidate for the Ombudsman for Children's Rights. It showed that the greatest threat to parliamentarism in Poland is not Russian bots, but the lust for revenge and unthinking repetition of daily narratives.” http://praca.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1292428,wittenberg-o-kandydatce-na-urzad-rzecznika-praw-dziecka.html

-- BOGDAN RYMANOWSKI SAYS JOURNALISTS PREACH TOO MUCH AND ASK TOO FEW QUESTIONS: “I admit, I don't find myself in this dispute at all. This is not what I, as a journalist, would like to do. For me, journalism is about distance from politics. A distance that involves questioning politicians, probing, but leaving the right to draw conclusions to the viewer or reader. I believe that journalists preach too much and ask too few questions. There are too many narratives from people who have joined this or that tribe, and too few attempts at conversation.”

-- I FELT LIKE A PLAYER COMING ONTO THE FIELD FOR A FEW MINUTES WHEN I FELT CAPABLE OF PLAYING THE WHOLE MATCH - RYMANOWSKI ON LEAVING TVN: “I would be lying if I said I didn't have freedom at TVN. I invited the guests I wanted, discussed the topics I wanted with them, and asked the questions I wanted. My transfer was mainly driven by my desire to find a new formula for myself. One where I would have more game time. At TVN, I felt like a player coming onto the field for a few minutes when I felt capable of playing the whole match. Polsat's management guaranteed me that. And of course, it's a station where I can realize myself as a journalist on my own terms and implement my vision of this profession. With Dorota Gawryluk, we look for nuances in our program, we have doubts, we search for the core of problems. I greatly value the fact that we have a free hand in this regard.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/wywiad-bogdan-rymanowski-to-nie-dziennikarze-kreuja-i-obalaja-kolejne-rzady-aa-sXCZ-xT1u-T6XJ.html

-- JAKI OUTPACES TRZASKOWSKI BY SEVERAL LENGTHS IN ENERGY, DYNAMISM, AND ENTHUSIASM - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF RZ Bogusław Chrabota: “Trzaskowski is certainly less visible. Patryk Jaki, on the other hand, is everywhere. One can get the impression that he outpaces Trzaskowski by several lengths in terms of dynamism, energy, and enthusiasm. Anyone who reads his program or listens to his interviews is bombarded by Jaki with a landslide of evidence that he has experience, is competent, and will handle the management of such a large and complex urban organism as the Warsaw metropolis brilliantly.”

-- RZECZPOSPOLITA DID NOT WRITE THAT JAKI LACKED EDUCATION - Chrabota Continues: “We never wrote that the United Right candidate does not have a diploma, only that he provides imprecise information about his connections with the legendary university. The fact that he had a connection with it only elevates him. We are not naive at 'Rzeczpospolita'. We are aware that the media provide fuel for politics. Nevertheless, there will never be an agreement on lies or intentional forgeries. The electoral race must be honest, based on facts and truth. We care deeply about this, because this is how we see politics.” https://www.rp.pl/Felietony/310079956-Chrabota-Wyzsze-wyksztalcenie-Patryka-Jakiego.html&template=restricted

-- PATRYK JAKI COMPARES HIS GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE WITH THAT OF HIS MAIN RIVAL IN A CONVERSATION WITH JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ: “Three years in the Ministry of Justice and I have been heading the Verification Committee for a year and a half. Rafał Trzaskowski? Ten months as Minister of Digitization and twelve as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Local government experience? I have two terms, my deputy has 20 years – he knows Warsaw like few others. And Rafał Trzaskowski and Paweł Rabiej have not spent a single minute in local government! They will spend the first few years learning. Who managed a larger budget? I managed one of the largest government budgets in Poland – 11 billion, my competitor only just over 1 billion for 10 months. I have more experience, I am better prepared for this role than Trzaskowski.”

-- JAKI REITERATES COMMITMENT ON IN VITRO: “This is a derivative of my commitment from the beginning of the year. If I become the Mayor of Warsaw, I will not delve into ideology at all. I will not touch the in vitro program in Warsaw; it will continue to function. I will focus on building roads, nurseries, and kindergartens. I want a pragmatic Warsaw, not an ideological one.”

-- JAKI STATES HE DOES NOT WANT A FIGHT WITH PO BUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, PARKING LOTS, BRIDGES, AND METRO: “I will be the mayor for voters of PO, SLD, PiS, PSL, and other groupings. I want pragmatic local government, not ideological. My opponent Rafał Trzaskowski writes that road construction can be halted because the fight against PiS is the most important thing. I propose a different program for Warsaw. I don't want a fight with PO. I want the construction of roads, new bridges, metro, and parks.” https://www.rp.pl/Wybory-samorzadowe/310079921-Patryk-Jaki-Nie-interesuje-mnie-walka-z-PO.html&template=restricted

-- PATRYK JAKI GOES TO WARSAW - excerpt from Karolina Kijek's article in Duży Format GW: “At first glance, a 30-year-old man I meet at a neighborhood festival: – I used to play football with him on the school field. He was older. He wanted to become our coach. Jacek, who runs the neighborhood club: – I never saw him there. While other boys from the neighborhood were chasing girls, he would leave the building and go to the city hall. And not in a tracksuit, but in a shirt and tie. He got the first proper football field in the neighborhood. Where he used to kick a ball himself. Patryk will tell me later that he's happy because the field is lit and he sometimes sees boys kicking a ball instead of sitting with a beer on a bench. – But I never wore a tie.”

-- ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE ABOUT JAKI: “A friend of Jaki's: – I attended one of their meetings. They were working on enriching their vocabulary. That is, they sat in a circle, Patryk threw out a word, and they wondered what more complicated synonym to use. For example, instead of 'to talk,' one could say 'to expatiate.' http://wyborcza.pl/duzyformat/7,127290,24007444,jaki-idzie-na-warszawe-patryku-dlaczego-szkolni-koledzy.html

-- PRESIDENT'S RUDE JOKES TO DROWN PO SPOKESPERSON? - title in Fakt.

-- THEY WEAR 'CONSTITUTION' T-SHIRTS BUT DID NOT REACT - Jacek Karnowski: “Certainly, many of those gathered in the Legionowo hall at the convention of the local branch of PO wear T-shirts with the inscription 'Constitution.' Many undoubtedly marched in defense of freedom, supposedly threatened. And at the same time, none of those present were able to oppose a man who behaved like a typical, emboldened satrap, convinced of his own power and impunity.”

-- KARNOWSKI ON ABSOLUTE POWER IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: “It's a shame that the limitation of mayoral terms to two is only in effect from this year's elections (meaning some will only leave in 10 years). The case of Mayor Smogorzewski shows that absolute power in local governments corrupts even more than at the top.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/415494-dlaczego-nikt-z-zebranych-w-legionowie-nie-zareagowal

-- SEXISM FROM LEGIONOWO - Anna J. Dudek in GW.

-- GW ON THE FUNDAMENTAL MODIFICATION OF PiS'S STANCE ON THE DE-UBEKIZATION ACT - Wojciech Czuchnowski, Leszek Kostrzewski in GW: “PiS politicians have repeatedly announced that there is no turning back from de-ubekization. On October 4, at a legislative committee session, there was an unexpected turn. Such a position means a return to the principle that every official who passed positive verification after 1990 and joined the service in the organs of independent Poland retains full entitlements to military pension or rent. This principle was established in 2010 by the Constitutional Tribunal. This was during the first de-ubekization carried out by the PO-PSL government. The Constitutional Tribunal emphasized then that the reduction of benefits could only concern the period of service during the communist era.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24015383,poslowie-pis-dezubekizacja-niezgodna-z-konstytucja-pomylka.html

-- TOMASZ SAWCZUK IN KULTURA LIBERALNA ON SIENKIEWICZ'S BOOK: “Similarly, the author of 'Theoretic State' argues that although the history of the Third Polish Republic does not need to be thrown into the trash, the passive anti-PiS strategy, which boils down to defending the past, is not enough to cope with the challenges ahead. The crisis of the state is a problem that goes back much further than PiS rule, and its significance extends beyond the national context of the 'good change.' Therefore, I see Sienkiewicz's proposals more as one of the possible additions to the project outlined in 'New Liberalism' rather than as an alternative.”

-- SIENKIEWICZ'S FORMER COLLEAGUES ARE NOT FULFILLING THEIR ROLE - Sawczuk continues in KL: “PiS does not respond to this challenge because, in relation to public institutions, its policy consists primarily of replacing one elite with another. A new impetus is needed. However, Sienkiewicz's former colleagues are not fulfilling their role. Paradoxically, the greatest bitterness can be sensed in the author's words directed towards the current opposition. 'Such a Civic Platform, with such program proposals, has very limited chances of success' [p. 141], writes the former minister in Donald Tusk's government.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2018/10/08/sawczuk-bartlomiej-sienkiewicz-panstwo-teoretyczne-ksiazka-recenzja/

-- ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ ANNOUNCES Onet's PUBLICATION ON MORAWIECKI'S CONTACTS WITH JKB: “That doesn't sound credible to me. In my opinion, it's more of a calming message from the leader to the voters. It looks more like Morawiecki was playing on both sides during the PO-PSL government. He was very close to Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, about which we will be writing soon. He was close to Tomasz Arabski. In 2014, when it became clear that the Civic Platform would lose, Morawiecki clearly sided with PiS. From the perspective of his own interests and personal career, he chose well.”

-- THE SUCCESSION PLAN HAS BEEN SHAKEN - STANKIEWICZ STATES: “It is possible that a power struggle will begin in PiS today. One thing is certain. The succession plan built by Kaczyński, in which Morawiecki would be the face of PiS after the leader's departure, and Joachim Brudziński would be the second leader, more on the sidelines, has been seriously shaken. There will certainly be a power play within the ruling camp. We will see how it ends after the elections. But changes in the prime minister's position cannot be ruled out.”

-- STANKIEWICZ GETS TO THE POINT, STATING THAT KACZYŃSKI MAY HEAD THE GOVERNMENT: “I don't know who he will appoint, perhaps Joachim Brudziński, although I do not rule out that Jarosław Kaczyński himself will head the government. Despite his health problems, he will likely manage. I recall that when he was prime minister once, the government's work was actually led by Minister, then Deputy Prime Minister Przemysław Gosiewski. Jarosław Kaczyński only appeared at short Council of Ministers meetings, setting directions. It could be similar now, with Brudziński playing a role similar to Gosiewski.” https://dorzeczy.pl/kraj/79574/Stankiewicz-Po-wyborach-Jaroslaw-Kaczynski-moze-zastapic-Morawieckiego.html

-- DOMINIKA WIELOWIEYSKA WRITES THAT ZIOBRO AND KAMIŃSKI HAVE A VITAL INTEREST IN WEAKENING MORAWIECKI: “Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro and Minister Coordinator for Special Services Mariusz Kamiński have a vital interest in weakening Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Therefore, many people in PiS suspect that a signal was sent to journalists through intermediaries: hey, look into the wiretapping scandal files, especially this and that page. Because no one knew these papers as well as Kamiński, Ziobro, and their people. The result was the disclosure of the prime minister's conversation with Krzysztof Kilian, Zbigniew Jagiełło, and Bogusława Matuszewska, and the testimony of one of the waiters who speaks of an unknown recording of Morawiecki.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,24015261,tasmy-jako-sygnal-wyslany-do-morawieckiego-czyzby-ziobro-z.html

-- MARCIN ANTOSIEWICZ DESCRIBES HOW MARCIN ŚWIĘCICKI TOOK IN REFUGEES: “Once, the Święcicki home was full of people: four children, Joanna's parents, the two of them. – When the children moved out, and my wife's parents passed away, the house became empty – says Marcin Święcicki. – We always had someone living with us – adds Joanna Święcicka, who tells us that they have hosted foreigners in the past: emigrants from Georgia for a year and a Ukrainian woman who was injured at Maidan for two months. In recent months, they have heard a lot about refugees who have been camping at the Brześć-Terespol border for weeks, trying to apply for 'international protection' in Poland. Five months ago, they received a firsthand account from that place.” https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/sitora-i-sanjar-u-swiecickich-polityk-po-przyjal-do-domu-uchodzcow/40vnx2k

-- MEASLES IS FLOODING FROM THE EAST - front page of DGP: “In turn, an epidemiological alert involving migrants here revealed a legal loophole: although it is obvious that the problem needs to be nipped in the bud, there is no clarity as to which procedures should be followed. And who should pay for vaccinations. In addition, there is meager knowledge about the problems with measles in Ukraine. The Sanitary Inspectorate admits that it has no idea whether vaccinations against this disease are mandatory or not in our eastern neighbor. According to our information, work is underway in the Ministry of Health to regulate these issues. And experts point out that one of the reasons for the spread of measles in Ukraine was anti-vaccination propaganda.” http://zdrowie.dziennik.pl/aktualnosci/artykuly/582673,odra-epidemia-ukraina-szczepienia-antyszczepionkowcy.html

-- GW ON THE ALARMING REPORT FROM THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT: “Łódź Voivodeship like a desert, droughts in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, extreme winds in Pomerania, and landslides in Małopolska. A document from the Ministry of Environment confirms that Poland faces an ecological catastrophe due to climate change.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24015698,katastroficzny-raport-ministerstwa-srodowiska-polsce-groza.html

-- 18 YEARS AGO, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, who was running for re-election, won the presidential elections in the first round.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Ewa Żarska, Ewa Drozd, Bronisław Cieślak, Czesław Siekierski, Piotr Kownacki, Zbigniew Siemiątkowski.