-- NEW POLISH COMMISSIONER IN LATE SPRING - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/11/26

-- JAN GRABIEC ON 500+ NOT BEING FOR THE UNEMPLOYED: “Unemployed? You won't get 500+! This is the shocking idea of Civic Platform, which wants to change the rules for awarding the benefit! – The 500+ program causes parents who haven't worked for years to become permanently unemployed, they don't seek jobs because they have 500+. This is harmful and needs to be changed – announces PO spokesperson Jan Grabiec (46) in an interview with 'Super Express'”.

-- GRABIEC'S STATEMENT: “In the next parliamentary term, we will want to address the issue of 'whether you stand or lie down, you get 500+'. This is dysfunctional. The 500+ program causes permanently unemployed parents not to seek work because they benefit from the allowance. If a father and mother don't work and live solely on social benefits, that's a problem. It cannot be that both don't work, because in such cases, 500+ is harmful.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/nie-pracujesz-nie-dostaniesz-500-plus-szokujacy-pomysl-posla-jana-grabca-z-po-aa-6ZZc-XJVj-BssW.html

-- GRABIEC'S RESPONSE ON TWITTER: “I regret to state that the SE publication has little to do with the content of the conversation. I spoke about the necessity of extending 500+ to the first child. PiS takes away 500+ for an income of 800 PLN – this is unfair to families and dysfunctional for the labor market!”

-- PROF. JAROSŁAW FLIS IN RZ ARTICLE ON TWO CURRENTS IN PIS: “Two currents have become established within the party: the republican one, which wanted to create common good, and the rebellion one, which wanted to settle the predecessors' neglects thoroughly and overthrow everything. It turned out, however, that the least ambitious current of revenge proved to be the strongest.” https://www.rp.pl/Prawo-i-Sprawiedliwosc/181129559-Nepotyzm-PiS-ginie-od-wlasnej-broni.html

-- KACZYŃSKI FORCED ZIOBRO TO SWALLOW A BITTER PILL - DOMINIKA WIELOWIEYSKA in GW: “Aware of these threats, President Kaczyński decided to knock the idea of division out of Ziobro's head. The head of the Ministry of Justice did everything to avoid becoming the face of a humiliating spectacle in which PiS withdraws from Supreme Court changes. He wanted someone else to endorse it, reserving for himself the role of the unyielding one who would never make concessions to the European Union. According to my information, Kaczyński foresaw this tactic and forced Ziobro to speak in the Wednesday parliamentary debate on the amendment to the Supreme Court Act. This was the PiS leader's tactic to prevent Ziobro from portraying himself as the last unyielding figure. It was effective, judging by how Ziobro, with an almost cracking voice, justified the change. Swallowing this pill was extremely difficult for him, but he finally swallowed it to the accompaniment of opposition laughter.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,24210559,jak-kaczynski-zmusil-ziobre-do-polkniecia-zaby.html

-- PROSECUTION'S FAILED ATTACK ON TVN - A SWASTIKA AGAINST FREE MEDIA, IS ZIOBRO'S POSITION FALLING? - GW Front Page: “Investigators wanted to prosecute a TVN journalist who exposed neo-fascists for propagating fascism. But they suddenly withdrew. Does this mean Zbigniew Ziobro's position in the government is falling?”

-- MORAWIECKI WAS FURIOUS - DALEJ CZUCHNOWSKI: “Immediately after this declaration, Ziobro's prosecution decided to press charges against Wacowski. According to our sources, Morawiecki 'was furious' because he 'took it as a provocation from Ziobro'.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24211284,nieudany-atak-prokuratury-na-tvn-dlaczego-sledczy-odpuscili.html

-- PODLASIE GW ON ZIELIŃSKI AND JURGIEL'S CONFLICT THREATENING LOSS OF POWER IN PODLASIE: “After Łanczkowski's resignation, it can be expected that Zieliński will want to use the situation for further struggle with Jurgiel for influence in Podlasie PiS. As a result of the agreement, not all rebels' ambitions have been satisfied. It is possible that they, among others, may become targets for KO and PSL 'hunts'. Therefore, it is possible that this coalition will again be able to form a Podlasie board. It still needs only two councilors from the PiS club. The third session of the regional assembly is to take place on November 29. According to the planned agenda, the chairman is to be dismissed and a new one appointed. The deputy marshals and board members are also to be appointed then, as well as a deputy speaker of the assembly.” http://bialystok.wyborcza.pl/bialystok/7,35241,24210532,zarzad-wbrew-nowogrodzkiej-historia-buntu-radnych-pis-w-podlaskim.html

-- PIS WANTS TO RIDE OUT THE SCANDAL - Agata Kondzińska in GW:“This matter is already dying down, appointing a committee would only fuel it, the media would constantly return to it – a PiS politician tells us. – It's complicated, and the protagonists are moderately recognizable. Chrzanowski was not widely known; with his resignation, he became a negative figure, few will miss him. Czarnecki might be more popular, but he's not exactly a candidate for a positive hero either. A multi-oligarch known for aggressive actions in the banking market, for endowment policies or Swiss franc loans, won't be the second Kluska for Poles – he adds.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24211300,afera-knf-w-pis-licza-na-to-ze-sprawa-wkrotce-przycichnie.html

-- COOPERATION BETWEEN KO AND PETRU CANNOT BE RULED OUT - PIOTR MISIŁO IN CONVERSATION WITH JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: “Cooperation between Nowoczesna and Ryszard Petru within the Civic Coalition cannot be ruled out. The opposition's victory over PiS might be decided by two or three seats. It might turn out that the percentage, or even half a percent, that Petru's party receives could be the difference for us to win against PiS. Today we argue, but soon we might be forced to cooperate. Let me remind you that Nowoczesna was founded in opposition to PO, and today it is in opposition with it. Politics.”

-- KATARZYNA IS LEARNING - MISIŁO CONTINUES in RZ: “Yes. It's visible at every step. She has never managed large teams of people. She hasn't participated in multi-level, difficult processes. Katarzyna is learning. I hope she learns before it's too late.”

-- TODAY I WOULD NOT SUPPORT LUBNAUER - MISIŁO CONTINUES with NIZINKIEWICZ: “If I had to vote and choose today, I would not support Katarzyna Lubnauer. However, we believed Katarzyna, we placed our trust in her, and Nowoczesna is in crisis. Let's not fool ourselves. Our poll numbers are tragic.”

-- HEAD SHOULD ROLL FOR SILESIA IN NOWOCZESNA - FRAGMENT OF NIZINKIEWICZ AND MISIŁO'S CONVERSATION: “For Silesia in Nowoczesna, heads should roll. Whose? - The Secretary General of Nowoczesna. - Adam Szłapka? - Yes.”

https://www.rp.pl/Nowoczesna/311259968-Misilo-Lubnauer-zabraklo-doswiadczenia.html

-- LUBNAUER SUSPENDS MISIŁO: “Piotr Misiło is destroying .N through his personal ambitions. In accordance with the Board's decision, I am suspending him from .N and submitting a motion to the Disciplinary Court for his removal from the party. The coalition that will remove PiS from power can only be built on trust and cooperation.”

-- TIME FOR ANOTHER "EUROPE, DON'T LET GO" CAMPAIGN - EWA SIEDLECKA: “Therefore, it is time for another 'Europe, don't let go' campaign. Once before, through civic pressure, we managed to get the European Commission to file a lawsuit – narrowly, but still – against the Supreme Court regulations. However, the source of the pathology poisoning the entire justice system is the new National Council of the Judiciary (KRS). We must push for the Commission to also sue the regulations regarding the KRS and disciplinary regulations before the Court. The Commission already sees that resistance makes sense.” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1772858,1,czas-na-nowa-akcje-europo-nie-odpuszczaj.read?src=mt

-- BIRTHDAYS: Jerzy Zdrada, Andrzej Rzepliński, Andrzej Halicki, Andrzej Zieliński, Adam Leszczyński, Lucjan Olszówka, Konrad Komornicki, Grzegorz Lipiec, Jerzy Smoliński, Tomasz Sygut.