-- 38 YEARS AGO, THE FIRST ISSUE OF "TYGODNIK SOLIDARNOŚĆ" WAS PUBLISHED.
https://www.tysol.pl/a5962-3-kwietnia-1981-roku-ukazal-sie-pierwszy-numer-Tygodnika-Solidarnosc

-- BIELAN ON THE RECONSTRUCTION DECISION AT THE START OF THE WEEK: https://300polityka.pl/live/2019/04/03/

-- LOWER TAXES ALREADY THIS YEAR - PRIME MINISTER CONFIRMS IN CONVERSATION WITH GRZEGORZ OSIECKI IN DGP: "Not only a zero PIT for young people, but also a reduction of the rate for everyone to 17 percent and a doubling of income-generating costs would come into effect as early as the autumn of 2019. We want not only the new PIT solutions to be passed, but also for taxpayers to feel their positive effects already in the autumn," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told DGP. It is the head of government who is pushing for the fastest possible implementation of the tax ideas from Kaczyński's 'Five'. He does not want to postpone their positive effects to next year."
https://gospodarka.dziennik.pl/podatki/artykuly/594910,piatka-kaczynskiego-nizsze-podatki-fiskus.html

-- PiS IS FED UP WITH ZALEWSKA - CLOUDS OVER THE HEAD OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION - GW LEAD STORY - Agata Kondzińska, Justyna Suchecka: "The government will not give in to the teachers - say our sources from the ruling camp. There is still no breakthrough in negotiations, and the longer they last, the weaker Minister Anna Zalewska's position becomes. Even her participation in the European Parliament elections is at risk. The head of the Ministry of Education, Anna Zalewska, is the leader of PiS's electoral list for the European Parliament from the Lower Silesian-Opole constituency. Politicians from the ruling camp are themselves talking about the possibility of withdrawing her from the May elections. - When we were arranging the lists, the only thing that burdened her was the PCK scandal, but at the time it was assumed it wouldn't harm us. Now, the teachers' demands, the real threat of a strike, and her internal conflicts within the government have been added," says our source from the ruling party."
http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24609936,czarne-chmury-nad-minister-edukacji-pis-ma-dosc-zalewskiej.html

-- REPAIRING POLAND CANNOT BE A SIMPLE RETURN TO THE PREVIOUS STATE - KAZIMIERZ MICHAŁ UJAZDOWSKI IN GW: "Repairing Poland after PiS leaves cannot be a simple return to the previous state. In addition to restoring the proper role of democratic institutions, they will need to be reformed.

-- AFTER A POTENTIAL DEFEAT, PiS WILL AIM FOR THE PROVISIONALITY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT - UJAZDOWSKI CONTINUES: "Jarosław Kaczyński built a model of provisional government, without the intention of basing it on positive and lasting principles. This constitutional model is incapable of surviving election defeats. After losing power, PiS will sustain the conflict tearing the country apart and will be interested in ensuring that the segment of public opinion it represents feels alienated in the public space. I have no doubt that this will be a policy calculated to ensure the provisionality of the new government. Therefore, the reconstruction of the rule of law must be linked to the modernization of the state and the consolidation of institutions serving the common good."
http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,24609333,polskie-panstwo-prawa-trzeba-podniesc-z-ruin-ale-i-zmodernizowac.html

-- MOMENTUM ON THE SIDE OF THE EUROPEAN COALITION, SCHETYNA HAS REACHED CRITICAL MASS - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: "The problem, however, is not individual polls, but the overall dynamic, which suggests that the European Coalition may surprise. Despite ideological inconsistency and a rather sluggish campaign, the opposition alliance led by Schetyna seems to have reached a critical mass that it lacked over the last four years. For the first time, an entity has emerged with such significant gravitational pull that the government's bigger or smaller stumbles strengthen the opposition."
https://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/304029910-Szuldrzynski-PiS-ma-powody-do-zmartwien.html

-- THERE IS A CHANCE TO STOP THE PARTY HEAD OF THE GIODO - EWA SIEDLECKA: "After PiS's embarrassment regarding the latest candidates for the Children's Ombudsman, there is a chance that public opposition will prevent PiS from appointing its party colleague as protector of our right to privacy. A petition on this matter can be signed here. It is also possible that the European Commission will respond to the matter, as the independence of data protection authorities is crucial for them."
https://siedlecka.blog.polityka.pl/2019/04/01/polityk-pisu-ma-chronic-nasze-dane-osobowe/

-- HERE IS THE PETITION SIEDLECKA WRITES ABOUT: https://naszademokracja.pl/petitions/nie-pozwolny-pis-przejac-urzad-ochrony-danych-osobowych?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1553933347

-- THERE IS NO TRACE OF WIOSNA'S SPECTACULAR START - ŁUKASZ ROGOJSZ ON GAZETA.PL: "There is no longer any trace of the spectacular beginning. Two months after entering mainstream politics, Biedroń's Wiosna must fight fiercely for every percentage point in the polls and reinvent itself in a world dominated by the PO-PiS duopoly. The opportunity to "bounce back" is to be the party's convention in Warsaw, devoted to European issues."

-- ROGOJSZ ON WIOSNA'S PROBLEMS: "Two months after launching, the Wiosna party has three main problems. The first is, of course, falling poll ratings, while the two biggest players are gaining. The second is the lack of a thematic niche that Wiosna could find and monopolize, dictating the narrative to other parties. Finally, the third, arguably strategic one - less than two months before the European Parliament elections, there is no clear idea of how and with whom Wiosna intends to compete for the votes of Poles. It lacks clear self-definition at a time when clarity determines survival in Polish politics."
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,24609045,czy-wiosna-doczeka-jesieni-pierwszy-powazny-egzamin-biedronia.html

-- ZUZANNA DĄBROWSKA ON BIEDROŃ'S ADVANTAGE OVER OTHER POLITICIANS - writes in RZ: "Today, Robert Biedroń is playing the same card, although it is obvious that his predecessors did not succeed with this concept. One, maybe two terms - and it's time to go home. But Biedroń also possesses the second essential quality of a tribune. It is a sense of his own importance, resulting in the fact that the person he is currently talking to feels honored by this fact, sometimes even against their will. This is a competence that many politicians envy him. Will it be enough to build a stable formation? It depends on whether he convinces the rest that in addition to being willing to be adored, he will be able to act in their interest.
https://www.rp.pl/Rzecz-o-polityce/304029917-Dabrowska-Elektorat-wierzacy-i-niewierzacy.html

-- MARCIN FIJOŁEK ON THUN AND MEYSZTOWICZ'S STATEMENTS: KACZYŃSKI IS LIKE A FARMER FROM AN ANECDOTE, EVERYTHING GROWS ON ITS OWN: "Of course, the aforementioned politicians do not fully reflect the way politics, community, and individual symbols (which are important in politics, after all) are understood in the entire Civic Platform or Nowoczesna. In Thun's statement (less so in Meysztowicz's), there was a bit of humor, catching oneself in a certain associative pattern. Nevertheless, the pace at which such self-destructive logic is adopted is surprising - even given the modest expectations and low bar set by the politicians themselves. What is at the end of this process? Associating Robert Lewandowski's eagle emblem on his national team jersey with support for PiS? The presence of soldiers at the Polish Army Day and parade as a march of support for Jarosław Kaczyński? A picnic with pea soup on the occasion of NATO accession as recognition for Minister Błaszczak? Sometimes Jarosław Kaczyński is indeed like a farmer from an anecdote, who sleeps and the grain grows and ripens on its own."
https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/440798-flaga-i-rozaniec-jako-znaki-pis-to-cos-wiecej-niz-kabaret

-- KACZYŃSKI'S FAIRY TALES ABOUT FREEDOM - JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: "And yet, there is also the ban on Sunday trading, which restricts economic freedom, the ban on selling agricultural and forest land, and restrictions on opening pharmacies or transferring businesses abroad... The leader, wanting to grant freedom to internet users, should first check in how many areas of life his party restricts Poles' freedom."
https://www.rp.pl/Rzecz-o-polityce/304029919-Bajki-Jaroslawa-Kaczynskiego.html

-- MAREK KOZUBAL IN RZ DEFENDS BŁASZCZAK: "After more than a year in office, Minister Błaszczak's team clearly shows who is the star and who could sit in the dunce's corner. The effects of his actions are concrete and directly translate into strengthening our defense capabilities. Previous governments did little to genuinely increase the number of soldiers in Poland. Błaszczak is succeeding. Although it is worth remembering that some actions in this direction were initiated by Deputy Minister Michał Dworczyk in Antoni Macierewicz's team (not for nothing that his name appears on the journalistic list of speculations related to the appointment of the head of the Ministry of National Defence)."
http://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/1400428-Nie-hejtujmy-Mariusza-Blaszczaka.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, Ewa Draus, Katarzyna Starmach.