-- MATEUSZ PAWLAK ON THE ECONOMIC PAGES OF RZ CITES BRUNO LE MAIRE'S WORDS AT A PANEL WITH PRIME MINISTER MORAWIECKI IN DAVOS: “– We need to address this issue. If we want a strong Europe, we need an efficient and fair tax system. I would like this 170 billion euros annually to land in the EU budget, supporting projects in Poland or France, not on accounts in the Caribbean – he added. He also mentioned that together with President Macron, he supports Poland's postulates on this matter and hopes that these changes can be implemented quickly, preferably through a simple majority vote, rather than unanimity of countries”. https://www.rp.pl/Budzet-i-Podatki/301239970-Forum-w-Davos-Czas-zlikwidowac-podatkowe-raje.htm -- OUR ALLIES SILENCED PUTIN, HE DID NOT ACHIEVE HIS GOAL IN JERUSALEM - FAKT'S FRONT PAGE. -- THE AMERICANS DEFENDED POLAND'S HONOR - FACT'S TITLE. -- HE SHOWED IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS BUT ABOUT HIM – PRIME MINISTER MORAWIECKI IN AN ARTICLE FOR FAKT: “Yesterday in Jerusalem, truth lost to politics. The solemnity of the Holocaust commemoration ceremony was disrupted by Vladimir Putin himself. He entered the hall after the first speech by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, showing everyone that it wasn't about the memory of the victims, but about him. He walked into a hall where, just moments before, maps falsifying the borders of pre-war Poland were displayed, maps that did not adequately mark the territories seized by Stalin”. -- OUR PLACE IS WITH THOSE WHO MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED THE HORROR OF WAR - PMM CONTINUES: “On January 27th, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest German extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, will be commemorated. It will be a day when the truth and the suffering of the victims will take precedence over politics. Poland stands on the front line in the fight for these highest values. Our place is among those who miraculously survived the horror of war. Our place is on the side of truth!”. https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/mateusz-morawiecki-dla-faktu-polska-stoi-po-stronie-prawdy/j54dw82 -- FROM AN ANALYSIS BY PAP CEO WOJCIECH SURMAJCZ THAT PMM UTILIZED THE INTEREST IN POLAND AFTER PUTIN'S ATTACK AND CONTRIBUTED TO CHANGING THE INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE TO POLAND'S BENEFIT: “Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has permanently entered the mainstream news disseminated by the world's largest media outlets. Statistics from the past seven days show how the Polish Prime Minister managed to capitalize on a favorable media market situation for Poland, partly triggered by Putin's attack on Poland”. -- IT IS RUSSIA EXPERIENCING ITS BIGGEST COMMUNICATION CRISIS IN YEARS – SURMACZ WRITES: “As the PAP president states, thanks to these appearances and all the educational initiatives initiated by Prime Minister Morawiecki, on one hand, Russia is experiencing its biggest image crisis since the era of perestroika and the fall of the communist regime. 'On the other hand, we are dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon since the end of World War II, because in reality – for the first time – the whole world learned about the Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, the fate of Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, the Ulma family, or the activities of the Ładoś Group' – assesses the PAP president”. https://www.tvp.info/46329265/polski-premier-w-swiatowych-mediach-dzieki-tym-wystapieniom-rosja-przezywa-kryzys -- TRUST RANKING ACCORDING TO INDICATOR - PAD 56, PMM 50, PBS 44, JAKI AND PJK PO 41%, KIDAWA 40, BIEDROŃ 37, TUSK 37. https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/6426709,prezydent-duda-lider-ranking-zaufanie-sondaz.html -- PLATFORMA, CHASE THAT TRAIN - ANDRZEJ MACHOWSKI IN GW: “PO is standing on the platform from which two full trains have just departed – one to the right, the other to the left. Its voters took the latter. (...) It's not hard to notice that KO voters have strongly shifted to the left in terms of worldview, and Lewica voters have practically soared in that direction. The electorate of PiS and Konfederacja chose the opposite direction. But the entire pro-democratic opposition (when we add the more centrist PSL to KO and Lewica) is separated by a worldview chasm from the combined PiS and Konfederacja voters in terms of their stance on abortion and the concordat: a 38-point difference on a 100-point scale!”. -- MACHOWSKI ON THE WORLDVIEW CHANGES OF VOTERS: “Politicians should not underestimate these three observed changes in voters' worldviews – namely: 1. a decrease in neutral attitudes; 2. an increase in liberal attitudes (at the expense of neutral ones); 3. conservative attitudes have become even more conservative, and liberal attitudes even more liberal. If politicians overlook this trend, they may lose their value of being 'one of us' among their existing voters and become 'foreigners'. And it seems they generally see this. Lewica speaks a language that resonates with its increasingly secular and anti-clerical voters, and PSL tries to reach the moderate center because that's where its supporters are. PiS is also clearly sharpening its language and defending every word of Archbishop Jędraszewski as if their lives depended on it”. -- MACHOWSKI ON CHASING THE TRAIN OF VOTERS: “PO has been left on the platform from which two full trains have just departed – one to the right, the other to the left. The presidential election will be won by whoever mobilizes their electorate to the maximum. Most likely, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska will meet Andrzej Duda in the second round. And those she needs to mobilize to win are on the train heading left. Because that's where the majority of KO voters and all of Lewica boarded. This train won't turn back. It needs to be chased”. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,25627194,platformo-gon-ten-pociag.html -- TOMASZ SIEMONIAK ON THE NEED FOR COLLEAGUiality IN PLATFORMA – THE PARTY CANNOT BE RUN LIKE IT WAS 15 YEARS AGO – HE TELLS ŁUKASZ PAWŁOWSKI IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “I would certainly also like to conduct the work of the collective bodies within Platforma in a different way, giving much more opportunity for political and programmatic discussion. But, of course, without any problem in enforcing decisions once they are made. I have considerable experience in managing large structures and I believe I know how to run Platforma differently. Differently, but effectively. It's not about Platforma being 'wishy-washy' and overly discussed. However, at the dawn of the 20s of the 21st century, a party cannot be run the way it was 15 or 20 years ago. There must be democracy, there must be respect for different personalities and groups. I think I am capable of bringing a completely new style to the work in Platforma”. -- MAYBE WE ARE ANTI-POPULISTS? – SIEMONIAK ON THE NEW DESCRIPTION OF POLITICAL DIVISIONS: “In its 19 years of existence, Platforma has completely changed, the left-right division has blurred, and there is a need for new words to describe who we are. Maybe anti-populists? There is also the issue of tradition to which we refer. PiS has appropriated historical politics over all these years. We also need to know what in history we refer to and where we come from”. https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2020/01/24/siemoniak-wywiad-wybory-przewodniczacy-po/ -- A CHANGE OF LEADER WON'T BE ENOUGH FOR PLATFORMA – JAKUB MAJMUREK: “The problem, however, is that Platforma needs much more than an efficient politician at its head today. Whoever wins on Saturday or in the coming weeks will head a party burdened with immense internal problems that will not disappear with the stepping down of Grzegorz Schetyna, who is even poorly rated by Platforma's own electorate”. -- PLATFORMA HAS NEVER BEEN AS WEAK AS IT IS TODAY – MAJMUREK CONTINUES: “One could even risk the thesis that since 2005 – when PO first became the main opposition to PiS – the party has never been as weak as it is today. Since Bronisław Komorowski's loss in the presidential elections in spring 2015, it has experienced a series of five electoral defeats in four years: twice in parliamentary elections, once in European elections, and once in local government elections. Because although PO maintained control of major cities in the latter elections – spectacularly winning in places like Warsaw and Poznań – it lost power in as many as seven voivodeships. Including Lower Silesia, considered one of the party's strongholds”. -- FOR NOW, KIDAWA IS EXECUTING KOMOROWSKI'S SCRIPT – MAJMUREK CONTINUES IN HIS CRITIQUE: “Kidawa-Błońska herself, just before the official start of the campaign, seems to be executing Bronisław Komorowski's script from 2015. There is no energy and determination from her that is palpable from the PiS camp. Declarations that she will only participate in presidential debates in the second round are rightly perceived as arrogance and disregard for the electorate. If Kidawa-Błońska's campaign team doesn't get its act together, if someone doesn't appear there to give the campaign a new direction and energy, it will end up like five years ago”. https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/platformie-zmiana-lidera-nie-wystarczy/ -- BUDKA HAS HALF OF KO VOTERS BEHIND HIM, PIS VOTERS APPRECIATE HIM – POLL FOR WPOLITYCE: https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/483746-borys-budka-zdecydowanym-faworytem-wyborow-na-szefa-po -- THE PRIME MINISTER HAS TURNED TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR AN INTERPRETATION OF THE SUPREME COURT'S RESOLUTION: https://300polityka.pl/live/2020/01/24/muller-pmm-uznal-za-stosowne-aby-to-tk-ostatecznie-rozstrzygnal-jakiekolwiek-watpliwosci-prawne-ktore-pojawily-sie-w-zwiazku-z-wczorajsza-uchwala-trzech-izb-sn/ -- GOWIN ON THE NEW STRUCTURE OF COURTS – IT SHOULD BE FLATTENED – 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2020/01/24 -- EVEN AMONG POLITICIANS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND SUCH RUTHLESSNESS IN THE FIGHT FOR POWER – JACEK KARNOWSKI: “What the Supreme Court judges are doing is truly frightening. Even among politicians, it is difficult to find such ruthlessness in the fight for power. Even they, however, sometimes back down in mutual combat. Sometimes quietly, but still. And the judges go through corpses to reach their goal. What will Poland be like – will the 'caste' win? Will anything ever be truly changed? How much will the word 'demos' in the name of our system be worth? Will voting even have any non-ritualistic meaning? That is why the Polish state cannot give in now”. https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/483673-joachim-brudzinski-i-beata-szydlo-na-czele-sztabu-prezydenta -- INCREASING CHAOS IN THE JUDICIARY - FACT'S TITLE. -- THE SUPREME COURT DEFENDS THE LAW - GW'S FRONT PAGE. -- THE SUPREME COURT IS HALTING AUTHORITARIANISM – JAROSŁAW KURSKI IN GW: “Without pliable judges, it will be extremely difficult to consolidate authoritarianism in Poland. It will be harder to suppress free media, intimidate the opposition, paralyze free citizens with fear, and it will be harder for officials who violate the constitution to remain unpunished”. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,25627825,sad-najwyzszy-walczy-z-niszczycielska-legislacja-pis.html -- BRUDZIŃSKI WILL BE THE HEAD OF THE PRESIDENT'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN, SZYDŁO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM – NEWS FROM WPOLITYCE: https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/483673-joachim-brudzinski-i-beata-szydlo-na-czele-sztabu-prezydenta -- BIEDROŃ LACKS GRAVITY – ŁUKASZ ROGOJSZ IN GAZETA.PL ON THE PILLARS OF LEWICA'S CAMPAIGN: “Lewica politicians also admit that the campaign team will have to give Biedroń a 'presidential format' that he currently lacks, and which is an absolutely fundamental trait for a presidential candidate. Biedroń is associated more with jocular remarks, a relaxed lifestyle, not always well-thought-out Twitter posts, and an inability to accept criticism. He will have to avoid all of this during the campaign to build confidence among voters that he is suitable for the Presidential Palace. Can you imagine voters today, especially those who generally do not vote for the left, seeing Robert as the supreme commander of the armed forces? Probably not, right? This will have to change as soon as possible – diagnoses a politician familiar with Biedroń in an interview with Gazeta.pl”. -- A LEFTIST AMONG CONSERVATIVES – ROGOJSZ CONTINUES ON BIEDROŃ'S CAMPAIGN: “This arrangement of forces in the race for the Presidential Palace means that Biedroń will have no competition to his left. He won't have to compete with anyone on views and promises in that area. Issues of equal rights, human rights (especially women's rights), ecology, and leveling the playing field in society will fall to Lewica. This, in turn, will allow Biedroń to focus on fighting for the political center, as the competition there will be much greater in the first round (Kidawa-Błońska, Kosiniak-Kamysz, Hołownia)”. http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,25622126,piec-filarow-kampanii-biedronia-najwazniejsze-to-odzyskac-wiarygodnosc.html -- IN AMBER GOLD THEY LOOKED FOR TUSK'S GUILT, WHOSE WILL THEY FIND NOW? – MONIKA OLEJNIK IN GW: “And all this swims in a sauce of scandals, disappearing millions from the CBA, lack of competence of the special services, which led to Marian Banaś being the head of NIK. There are countless scandals, like the recent one with GetBack, when it turned out that important institutions in the state – KNF, UOKiK, the Warsaw Stock Exchange – failed to protect citizens from a financial pyramid? In Amber Gold, they looked for Tusk's guilt, and now whose guilt will they find?”. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,25627080,wladza-kpi-sobie-z-wyrokow-sadowych-to-niebywale-do-czego.html -- BIRTHDAYS: Tomasz Sekielski, Jadwiga Skórzewska-Łosiak, Wojciech Orliński.