state of play: 03/30/2019

STATE OF THE GAME: Fijołek: Both Blocs Are Playing the Waiting Game, Likely a Draw Favoring PiS; Zandberg: PiS Rules Through Kopacz; Trzaskowski: The Episcopate Echoes PiS Propaganda

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-- CIVIC PLATFORM PUBLISHES A SPOT CONTRASTING ZALEWSKA WITH OCHOJSKA AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE THESIS ABOUT THE POLES' GREAT CHOICE: https://300polityka.pl/news/2019/03/30/w-najnowszym-spocie-koalicja-europejska-zderza-ochojska-z-zalewska-czy-widzisz-roznice-miedzy-kandydatkami-przed-nami-wielki-wybor/

-- PIS POLITICIAN: THIS IS PRECISELY RESEARCHED, COMMENTATORS POSITIVELY ABOUT PiS'S "FIVE PLUS" REGARDING INTERNET FREEDOM AGAINST ACTA2 – THEY ARE TARGETING YOUNG VOTERS: https://300polityka.pl/live/2019/03/30/sroczynski-obietnica-rozwodnienia-acta2-to-celny-strzal-pis-wigura-pis-skutecznie-zapunktowal-poszukuje-mlodych-wyborcow-polityk-pis-na-offie-z-badan-wynika-ze-temat-tzw-acta2-interesuje-mlody/

-- PRIME MINISTER TO YOUTUBERS, KACZYŃSKI ON THE LEAST HARMFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTA2, SCHETYNA ON THE VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE FOR ZALEWSKA, KOSINIAK ON THE EU IN THE CONSTITUTION – POLITICAL SATURDAY LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2019/03/30/

-- IT IS MORE LIKELY TO BE A DRAW FAVORING PiS – BOTH BLOCS ARE PLAYING THE WAITING GAME – MARCIN FIJOŁEK: "Both of the largest blocs are thus playing a kind of waiting game today, not sticking their necks out too much, not risking too much – this will likely allow them to achieve a draw with a slight advantage (I'd bet in favor of PiS) by the May elections, and much like with the local government elections, almost all participants will be able to claim success. And afterwards? Afterwards, we'll see: whether turnout will indeed be higher than usual (and how it will translate into results), whether Kukiz '15 and Spring can achieve more than just scraping past the election threshold, whether the pressure on PSL to not run independently in the autumn will be successful, whether PiS can withstand the tension and maintain their current, measured course, which Jarosław Kaczyński described as 'rejecting the principle of >>what's in the heart, is on the tongue


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