-- PETRU ON NO ONE DEFENDING TRZASKOWSKI – HE WAS LEFT ALONE; WKK ON NO DECLARATIONS OF JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION START – 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2019/03/13/

-- BOCHENEK – PIS'S NEW GOLDEN CHILD – FAKT: “For over a dozen days, former government spokesperson Rafał Bochenek has been the marketing director at PGNiG SA, a State Treasury company. The state giant confirmed our findings. Now it can be confidently said that he is another golden child of PiS. How much will Bochenek earn at PGNiG? A director at such a position can expect PLN 20–30 thousand per month. So how does he reconcile his new gig with the PiS resolution, according to which a councilor earning more than PLN 15,000 gross cannot hold their mandate? – ‘Formally, I am not a member of PiS, although I identify with the party and am proud of having served as government spokesperson,’ the interested party himself clarified our doubts.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24542219,tragiczny-rok-polskiej-polityki-zagranicznej.html

-- TRAILER FOR SEKIELSKI'S FILM ON PEDOPHILIA IN THE CHURCH: https://twitter.com/sekielski/status/1105394557980762112

-- ANOTHER MARTIAL LAW PROSECUTOR IN PIOTROWICZ'S FAMILY – as SE writes: “As ‘Super Express’ has established, the brother of PiS MP Stanisław Piotrowicz – Kazimierz Piotrowicz, was also a martial law prosecutor. In 1982, as the deputy head of the District Prosecutor's Office in Bochnia near Krakow, he prosecuted four opposition members under an expedited procedure. In the case of two individuals, prison sentences were handed down. Documents gathered by the Institute of National Remembrance indicate that Kazimierz Piotrowicz sent the heroes of Solidarity to prison. Local opposition members also recall his activities from that time. – ‘Kazimierz Piotrowicz is indeed Stanisław Piotrowicz's brother. It's true, he prosecuted during martial law,’ Jerzy Orzeł, a deputy to the Sejm of the Contract Sejm and one of the founders… of the renowned Centre Agreement, tells ‘Super Express’.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/brat-stanislawa-piotrowicza-oskarzal-bohaterow-solidarnosci-aa-WLhV-84uU-zc8i.html

-- PIS AND THE NON-PARTISANS SEIZE WROCŁAW AIRPORT – Jacek Harłukowicz in the local GW: “Jarosław Wróblewski, considered one of the authors of the Wrocław Airport's success, is no longer its vice-president. He has been replaced by 32-year-old Agata Granatowska, who has no business experience but is a confidante of Deputy Marshal Michał Bobowiec.” http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,24542582,bezpartyjni-i-pis-biora-lotnisko.html

-- COALITION WINS AGAINST PIS – KRZYSZTOF PACEWICZ ON KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN FOR GW'S FRONT PAGE: “If the European elections were held today, the European Coalition would win them with 35% support, ahead of PiS with 33%. The electoral threshold would also be crossed by: Biedroń's Spring with 11% and Kukiz’15 with 7%. Below the threshold would be the Left Together Coalition with a result of 4%, and the Confederation (Korwin-Mikke, Braun, Liroy, Nationalists) with 3% support. Of the 52 seats allocated to Poland, the European Coalition would receive 22, PiS – 20, Spring – 6, and Kukiz’15 – 4 – according to the Kantar Millward Brown survey.”

-- OPPOSITION WINS IN ALL CATEGORIES – Pacewicz writes: “This is the first poll by a reputable firm that predicts PiS's loss in the European Parliament elections. Furthermore, the democratic parties win in all direct confrontations: in the heavyweight category, the European Coalition wins against PiS; in the middleweight, Biedroń's Spring defeats Kukiz’15; and in the featherweight, the Left Together Coalition wins against the far-right Confederation.”

-- PIS LOSES IN CITIES AND AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE TO KE AND BIEDROŃ: “Detailed results show that younger voters and residents of the largest cities are turning away from PiS. Support for this party in cities over 500,000 has fallen from 27% to 16% since September! The ruling party is losing there not only to the European Coalition, which achieves 36% in the largest cities, but also to Biedroń's Spring, which gets 21%. Among younger voters – aged 18-34 – the decline in support for PiS is equally significant: from 23% to 13%. In this age group, KE narrowly wins (24%) ahead of Biedroń (22%) and Kukiz’15 (18%). PiS is only the fourth choice for younger electorate.”

-- BIEDROŃ ACHIEVES GOOD RESULTS IN RURAL AREAS AND AMONG LESS EDUCATED – Pacewicz continues: “Spring achieves good results not only among the youngest but also among people with primary education and those living in rural areas. This likely indicates the attractiveness of Biedroń's party's anti-clerical rhetoric for a segment of the popular electorate. The relatively good result of the Left Together Coalition (Razem Party, Union of Labour, Movement of Social Justice), which at 4% outpaces the Confederation and approaches the electoral threshold, is also a certain surprise.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24542566,przelomowy-eurosondaz-wyborczej-koalicja-wygrywa-z-pis-35-33.html

-- 22 SEATS FOR KE, 20 FOR PIS, 6 FOR SPRING, 4 FOR KUKIZ.

-- JUST DON'T MESS IT UP – JAROSŁAW KURSKI: “We now have the first serious poll that confirms the validity of the painstaking strategy of uniting democratic forces into one bloc. The boredom of months-long negotiations between PO, PSL, SLD, Nowoczesna, Inicjatywa Polska, Greens, the arduous tug-of-war, and the arrangement of coalition lists is bearing fruit. There is a premium for unity. Now, just don't mess it up.”

-- SPRING ULTIMATELY STRENGTHENS THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP – Kurski continues: “Despite concerns that Robert Biedroń's party might weaken the European Coalition, an intriguing paradox emerges. Indeed, Spring weakens the democratic camp, but simultaneously strengthens it. It reaches where PO does not – to the young, the rebellious, those disillusioned with politics, those who would not go to the polls at all. Just don't mess it up.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,24542593,jaroslaw-kurski-po-sondazu-wyborczej-tylko-tego-nie-popsuc.html

-- THE EUROPEANISM OF THE EUROPEAN COALITION IS LATE – MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI in RZ: “Social engineering based on uncontrolled immigration and a departure from traditional values is the implementation of the interests of liberal elites, for whom fulfilling the political demands of LGBT communities proved far more important than understanding the source of mass anxieties, which began to lose their sense of existential security as a result of the financial, migratory crisis, and worldview revolution. Viktor Orbán, Jarosław Kaczyński, and Donald Trump sensed these emotions quite some time ago. As it turns out, this is now reaching the right-wing mainstream as well. The Europeanism of today's European Coalition therefore seems to be a few years late.” https://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/190319817-Szuldrzynski-Spozniona-europejskosc-koalicji-europejskiej.html

-- NO MORE JOKES ABOUT THE TEACHERS' STRIKE, THE GOVERNMENT HAS A COLOSSAL PROBLEM – JUSTYNA SUCHECKA in GW: “It seems that the authorities have finally begun to realize the gravity of the situation. Although dismissive or absurd statements by ministers Krzysztof Szczerski ('there is no obligation of celibacy') or Marek Suski ('MPs earn not much more than teachers') might suggest otherwise, Minister Anna Zalewska's actions show that the ground is burning under the feet of PiS politicians.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,24542509,koniec-zartow-ze-strajku-nauczycieli-rzad-ma-kolosalny-problem.html

-- MICHAŁ DWORCZYK APOLOGIZES FOR SUSKI'S WORDS – as he says in a conversation with Jacek Nizinkiewicz: “I have no idea where that statement came from. I hope it was a slip of the tongue. To those who were offended, one can say: I apologize. Such a statement has nothing to do with reality.”

-- WE ARE TOLERANT – DWORCZYK TELLS NIZINKIEWICZ: “But the answer is very simple: we are tolerant. The difference lies in what President Kaczyński spoke about: there is a difference between tolerance and affirmation. Furthermore, organizing cyclical celebrations in one of Warsaw's districts is one thing, and trying to introduce content through the back door into the education system that is not included in the curriculum and for which only the Ministry of National Education has the exclusive right to shape is another.” https://www.rp.pl/Kraj/303129911-Michal-Dworczyk-My-jestesmy-tolerancyjni.html&cid=44&template=restricted

-- CZAPUTOWICZ'S TRAGIC YEAR – PAWEŁ WROŃSKI in GW: “While the two years of Witold Waszczykowski's leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could be described as a comedy, the past year – from the perspective of Polish foreign policy – has turned into a tragedy. (...) After a year of activity, Minister Czaputowicz must also answer the question of how much he is able to shape foreign policy – and influence its course – in which, as it turns out, the headquarters at Nowogrodzka, the Ministry of Justice, or the Ministry of National Defence play a greater role. To what extent is this foreign policy directed inwards and serves to assure voters that our country has risen from its knees and achieved success, and to what extent does it serve to achieve goals beneficial to the state?” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24542219,tragiczny-rok-polskiej-polityki-zagranicznej.html

-- THERE WILL BE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE – RZ's front page: “The Ministry of Justice (MS) is moving to the second stage of judicial reform. We have obtained the assumptions of the planned changes. Appellate courts are to disappear, leaving district and regional courts. A single office for all judges will be created: a judge of a common court with a unified salary. Will this be the legal basis for transferring judges and their departure from the profession? That's not all. Petty criminal matters would be handled by justices of the peace. They do not have to be lawyers.” https://www.rp.pl/Sedziowie-i-sady/303129915-Wielka-reforma-sadow-powszechnych-sedziowie-pokoju-zamiast-sadow-apelacyjnych.html

-- PIS QUARRELS OVER THE BAN ON TRADING – Piotr Mączyński in GW: “On one side are Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's people, on the other – conservatives fueled by 'Solidarity.' The first round has just begun. The stake? Liberalization or tightening of the ban on trading on Sundays. (...) The PKO BP Analysis Center released a report a few days ago stating that 'statistical analysis indicates that one non-trading Sunday reduces the monthly retail sales volume by 1.1%'. According to analysts, the ban reduced the GDP dynamics in 2018 by 0.3 percentage points. 'Following the same line of reasoning, extending the ban on trading to further Sundays in 2019 could result in retail sales being 3.3% lower than in the absence of regulation and a GDP dynamics reduced by about 0.5 percentage points,' concludes the PKO BP Analysis Center.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,155287,24541753,monolit-zaczyna-pekac-pis-kloci-sie-o-zakaz-handlu-w-niedziele.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Jan Żaryn, Marek Gróbarczyk, Bartłomiej Wróblewski, Łukasz Pawłowski, Piotr Borawski, Artur Soboń, Krzysztof Pietraszkiewicz, Iwona Michałek, Marek Kempski.