-- photo by Jacek's window on Mickiewicz Street. - FB Danuta Kuroń. -- 86TH BIRTHDAY OF JACKA KURONIA. -- Jacek Kuroń, the phone number everyone still remembers: 39 – 39 – 64. -- NIK'S ACCUSATIONS ON PRISONERS' LABOR ARE MISTAKEN - PRISON SERVICE TO SUE NIK - Grażyna Zawadka, Izabela Kacprzak in RZ: “According to our information, the justification states, among other things, that NIK took data on alleged losses from thin air...”. No proceedings will be initiated concerning alleged irregularities in the "Labor for Prisoners" program. NIK has lost in the prosecutor's office. Patryk Jaki: this is a disgrace. The Poznań Regional Prosecutor's Office refused to launch an investigation based on a complaint from the Supreme Audit Office (NIK), which found irregularities in the "Labor for Prisoners" program and in December filed several dozen notifications about understating rental rates for halls where convicts work. Following the NIK's negative report, two major companies withdrew from the program. Therefore, the Prison Service does not rule out suing NIK for damages caused by the report – "Rzeczpospolita" has learned unofficially. https://www.rp.pl/Polityka/303029900-Raport-NIK-bez-sledztwa-Sluzba-Wiezienna-pozwie-Izbe.html -- HEAD OF THE POLISH FILM ACADEMY LAST NIGHT DURING THE POLISH ORŁY GALA TO KIDAWAS: “- Małgosia, you look very good in such a high position – said Dariusz Jabłoński, president of the Polish Film Academy”. https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,25750766,malgorzata-kidawa-blonska-na-gali-orlow-prezydent-paf-malgosiu.html -- ONET NEWSLETTER: GROWING TROUBLES FOR PIS: “The past weekend showed that the opposition will not easily give up the race for the Presidential Palace. Both electoral conventions, of both KO candidate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska and PSL leader Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, surprised with their dynamism and message. One only had to look at the reactions of PiS politicians, who, especially on social media, tried with all their might to discredit both events. It has clearly dawned on them that the jokes are over, and if they don't wake up from their winter slumber, someone else might be residing in the Presidential Palace by summer”. -- WE WILL SHOW SOMETHING NEW AND DIFFERENT - KRZYSZTOF SOBOLEWSKI IN CONVERSATION WITH TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK AND GRZEGORZ OSIECKI IN DGP: “Let me ask provocatively – what proposals are coming from the other side? I haven't heard of any. But there are still 70 days of campaigning ahead of us, and the President will present his program proposals within 2-3 weeks. Then we will show something new and different”. -- SOBOLEWSKI ON TAX PROPOSALS SUGGESTED IN THE SENATE: “But supposedly there will be no new social proposals from your side? - But social matters are not just about welfare, they also include, for example, tax issues”. -- LACK OF COOPERATION IS BAD FOR CITIZENS - SOBOLEWSKI CONTINUES: “Of course, the situation will be different if President Duda wins – which I believe he will – and different if an opposition candidate wins. If Andrzej Duda wins, we will have a continuation of good, harmonious cooperation; the victory of anyone else will certainly bring a period of disputes. What this will bring to the citizens – nobody knows, certainly nothing good”. -- WE DREAM OF BREAKING THE RECORD OF 1.6 MILLION SIGNATURES - SOBOLEWSKI CONTINUES IN DGP: “That would be a dream goal, but I don't know if it's achievable, partly due to the weather. We certainly want to submit more than we did five years ago, when it was 1.6 million signatures”. https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykul-prasowy/6449071,sobolewski-kampania-wybory-prezydenckie-rozmowa.html -- HOŁOWNIA AGAINST THE CHURCH TODAY - MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI: “One could say that candidate Hołownia is now using the popularity and authority gained from a supposed concern for the Church against the Church. Matters of faith, religion, and the Church are being used by him today in a rather unseemly political game. And I understand that this must hurt many people, even if the undersigned never took that stance seriously”. https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/489421-holownia-na-prymasa-nie-kandyduje-ale-to-pol-prawdy -- KURSKI'S RESIGNATION WILL SOLVE TVN'S PROBLEMS - JACEK KARNOWSKI: “There is something else in the background: a conscious game by the opposition in agreement with some commercial stations that are losing their footing. They are losing ground due to civilizational changes, a certain group of viewers moving to paid services. But also because of well-managed TVP. Still far from ideal, but effective, achieving successes. And it is with effectiveness that the right has always had the biggest problems. That is why so many people are working to create a situation where Jacek Kurski's resignation appears to some as a simple move that will solve many of the right's problems. This is an illusion. Kurski's resignation will solve many of TVN's problems, but it will deepen the problems of others”. -- KARNOWSKI ON THE NEED FOR DE-ESCALATION: “De-escalation is needed in this matter. The second term of Andrzej Duda does not depend on this issue, nor on changing the CEO of TVP. Today, under the current conditions, it depends solely on the campaign team and the course of the campaign. The boundary conditions are clearly defined, and they can no longer be changed. One must fight, not look for shortcuts. Nervous moves can only worsen the situation of the "good change" candidate”. https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/489443-dymisja-kurskiego-rozwiaze-problemy-tvn-ale-na-tym-koniec -- SURPRISINGLY FEW BOSAK VOTERS INDICATE DUDĘ - PIOTR PACEWICZ ON THE IPSOS POLL FOR OKO.PRESS: “Duda's voters are the most certain of their choice – 79% do not consider the possibility of another candidate (also 79% of respondents – in another question – agreed with Kaczyński's opinion that Duda is the "dream candidate"). But 21% allow for a change of vote, including 9% who consider their choice of Duda to be temporary. Hołownia's voters are not very determined – only 39% are sure they will not change their decision, and 33% declare that they chose him for now, and will see what happens next. It is evident that the publicist and social activist has attracted the attention of many people, but has not deeply convinced them of his candidacy. Kosiniak-Kamysz's electorate, who generally enjoys a good opinion among journalists, is also surprisingly fluid: half make strong declarations, but as many as a quarter – the weakest. Kidawa-Błońska's voters are more determined – 61% are sure of their choice, but 39% allow for a change, including 16% who chose the KO candidate "at this moment," without certainty about the future. Surprisingly few – 36% – of Bosak's voters indicated Duda. The same number (in total) would transfer their votes to four democratic opposition candidates, most to Kosiniak-Kamysz (17%)”. -- THE SUM OF THE OPPOSITION OUTWEIGHS DUDĘ EVEN WITH ALL OF BOSAK; WKK HAS GREATER POWER TO ATTRACT BOSAK'S VOTERS - PACEWICZ CONTINUES: “The sum of the electorates of the four democratic opposition candidates (50%) outweighs Duda's electorate (41%), even with "all of Bosak" (5%). The issue is what proportion of this electorate will vote against Duda in the second round. Kidawa-Błońska has the greatest potential to capture opposition votes. However, she has no ability to take over Bosak's voters or steal votes from Duda. Kosiniak-Kamysz would have greater power to attract Bosak's voters, and even Duda's, but among democratic opposition voters, he is less popular than Kidawa-Błońska. Even Hołownia's voters more often choose Kidawa-Błońska (or even Biedroń) as their second choice”. https://oko.press/duda-ma-79-proc-pretorian-ale-kidawa-blonska-moze-wygrac-pospolitym-ruszeniem-jesli/ -- THE FIRST PSL LEADER WHO IS NOT RUNNING OUT OF OBLIGATION - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ IN TP: “In Rzeszów, he showed not only that he can operate on a scale comparable to PiS and PO. Above all, he proved that he is the first leader of the PSL in the history of the Third Republic who is not running out of obligation, but truly wants to become president”. -- KIDAWAS CONVENTION IS THE BEST PLATFORM EVENT IN YEARS - STANKIEWICZ CONTINUES: “Although the involvement of this tragic death in politics was a misstep, it does not change the fact that Kidawa's convention was the best Platform event in recent years. It is true that the candidate herself does not yet shine, but the first effects of the image experts' work are already visible; she is clearly more confident than before the parliamentary elections. At the same time, an operation to bring Kidawa closer to the people is underway – her aristocratic roots are being hidden, while her upbringing in Ursus, a former working-class district of Warsaw, is being emphasized. An image-warming element was also the emotional, personal speech of her husband”. https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/malzonkowie-w-grze-o-prezydenture-162342 -- KIDAWAS CAMPAIGN TEAM WENT IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION THAN DUDAS CAMPAIGN TEAM - ŁUKASZ PAWŁOWSKI IN KL: “Kidawa-Błońska's campaign team went in a different direction. Apart from the introductory speech by Borys Budka, there were no politicians on stage. Instead, they focused on short stories of "ordinary people" who have been wronged by the state in some way under the PiS government. The speech by Katarzyna Migdał, a young woman suffering from brain cancer, and her father, which was intended to show the difficulties faced by sick people today, was moving. A similar goal was pursued by the speech of Maciej Stachowiak, father of Igor Stachowiak, who died in a police station in Wrocław as a result of intervention by officers”. https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2020/03/03/pawlowski-konwencja-kidawa-blonska-relacja-podsumowanie/ -- PIS DID WHAT IT CRITICIZED THE OPPOSITION FOR - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “When the opposition submitted its special anti-coronavirus bill last week, the ruling camp did not spare criticism, and the government argued that an amendment to the Minister of Health's regulation on infectious diseases would suffice. However, over the weekend, it changed its mind and on Monday submitted its own bill on the matter. Perhaps someone decided that presenting only the government's information in the Sejm would make it seem as though PiS was not taking the matter seriously enough. But as a result, PiS did what it had criticized the opposition for”. https://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/303029905-Szuldrzynski-Wirus-na-smyczy-polityki.html?cid -- NOT CONVENTIONS, BUT HOW WE DEAL WITH THE VIRUS WILL BE DECISIVE - TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK, GRZEGORZ OSIECKI IN DGP: “It will not be the spectacular conventions, mutual criticism, or program proposals that will decide the outcome of the presidential elections, but how we deal with the coronavirus”. https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1456924,ustawa-koronawirus-rzad-opinia.html -- GALOPUJĄCY MAJOR ON WHAT POLITICIANS SHOULD DO TO ALLEVIATE CITIZENS' FEARS REGARDING THE VIRUS: “Isn't it difficult for the president or Senator Grodzki, instead of stroking his ego again, to issue a message in which he explains not to panic? There are a mass of ideas and solutions with which the authorities could try to control panic. But the authorities are not doing this, because for now, as one can read, they have problems with setting up boxes for passenger forms and opening laboratories longer than until 3 p.m.” https://krytykapolityczna.pl/felietony/galopujacy-major/nie-wysmiewaj-panikujacych-z-powodu-koronawirusa/ -- JUDGES APPOINTED BY PIS HAVE CLASSIFIED THEIR ASSETS - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ IN ONET: “Prominent judges appointed by PiS have taken advantage of a loophole in the law and classified their assets. This applies to some judges from two chambers of the Supreme Court, appointed by PiS. Previously, Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro argued that the transparency of assets is a recipe for corruption among judges. And he forcefully revealed the assets of judges critical of PiS”. https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/zarobki-sedziow-sedziowie-z-nadania-pis-utajnili-majatki/020jdr0 -- BIRTHDAYS: Kazimierz Janiak.