-- SAWICKI: I EXPECT MY LEADERS TO PRESENT PSL'S CONCEPT FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/10/24 -- MONTH AFTER MONTH, POLES PERCEIVE THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY AS INCREASINGLY WORSE. ALREADY 55 PERCENT BELIEVE THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY HAS WORSENED IN THE LAST YEAR - according to consumer sentiment surveys by GUS in October. These are the most critical assessments since December last year. https://businessinsider.com.pl/gospodarka/polacy-ocenili-sytuacje-w-kraju-najgorsze-badanie-od-czasu-zmiany-rzadu/8eccw77 -- HIDDEN PIT INCREASE FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POLES. THE GOVERNMENT HAS JUST ADMITTED IT - JAKUB CEGLARZ IN BUSINESS INSIDER: “Not raising the tax-free allowance in the coming years is one thing, but the government has admitted to something else in its medium-term budget and structural plan. Freezing the tax threshold at PLN 120,000 will mean that hundreds of thousands of Poles will have to pay 32% PIT annually, not 12%. This means a salary lower by even several thousand zlotys per month”. https://businessinsider.com.pl/prawo/podatki/ukryta-podwyzka-pit-dla-setek-tysiecy-polakow-rzad-nam-tego-nie-powie/kdty9rw -- CHAOS IN REFERRALS FOR THE NEXT DOSE OF COVID VACCINATION - AS USERS WRITE ON X: “About 200,000 people who were vaccinated in December 2023 are missing referrals, because they automatically received an incorrect referral six months later, in June (later cancelled). And now they haven't received a new one because the last one doesn't have the status 'fulfilled'”. https://x.com/CentrumeZdrowia/status/1849072879477854702 -- STALEMATE IN FREE HPV VACCINATIONS IN WARSAW. PARENTS SPEAK OF A NIGHTMARE - KATARZYNA JAROCH IN GW: https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,31409143,darmowe-szczepienie-przeciwko-hpv-w-szkolach-w-warszawie-nie.html -- ELECTRICITY DOESN'T SHOCK LIKE BILLS DO - GAZETA.PL HEADLINE BANNER: “Poles are reaching for their wallets when paying their electricity bills. In recent months, a significant increase has been observed, and a real blow may come quite soon”. https://next.gazeta.pl/next/7,151003,31402083,ceny-pradu-rosna-polacy-placa-i-placza-bylam-w-szoku-co.html -- TODAY, THE OPPONENTS OF PIS DO NOT NEED AGNIESZKA HOLLAND'S VOICE - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “Today, PiS opponents do not need Agnieszka Holland's voice. PiS denied the director patriotism, comparing her film to Nazi propaganda. PiS opponents prefer to remain discreetly silent. Both sides forget that the role of an artist is not to support or overthrow the government, but to awaken consciences, to disturb good feelings. So today, Holland stands abandoned in Aleje Ujazdowskie. Like a lonely 'singer' from 'Mury'”. https://www.rp.pl/krotkie-formy/art41338221-michal-szuldrzynski-samotna-agnieszka-holland-pod-kancelaria-premiera-tuska -- TUSK TURNED RIGHT: MANEUVER OR STRATEGY. HE PROBABLY ACHIEVED HIS GOAL, THE QUESTION OF LOSSES REMAINS - RAFAŁ KALUKIN IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “In this situation, the Prime Minister decided to take away the right's agenda, taking advantage of the fact that PiS has the visa scandal behind it and is not fully credible even to some of its supporters. In this regard, he proved to be more decisive than the leaders of Christian Democratic, Social Democratic, or Liberal parties in countries like Germany, France, or the Netherlands, who are merely trying to keep up with populists, adopting some of their slogans in a softened version”. -- TUSK PREFERRED TO IMMEDIATELY OUTBID THE POPULIST RIGHT, BOTH PIS AND KONFEDERACJA - CONTINUES KALUKIN: “Tusk preferred to immediately outbid the populist right, both PiS and Konfederacja. This was to paralyze both these forces, incapacitate them, and take away their most important weapon. And for now, it seems he has achieved his goal. Whether he will suffer losses on his side? That remains to be seen. He probably calculated that those truly perplexed supporters of the October 15th coalition have nowhere else to go”. https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2275503,1,tusk-skrecil-w-prawo-manewr-czy-strategia-cel-chyba-osiagnal-pozostaje-pytanie-o-straty.read -- IT IS XENOPHOBIC IN ITS TONE, WORSE AND MORE FEROCIOUS IN ITS RHETORIC THAN THE STRATEGY PREPARED BY THE LAW AND JUSTICE GOVERNMENT - WITOLD KLAUS FROM PAN IN CONVERSATION WITH KATARZYNA PRZYBORSKA IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: “Meanwhile, this document only says: control, security, danger, threat, foreigners will come and do something to us. It is xenophobic in its tone, worse and more ferocious in its rhetoric than the strategy prepared by the Law and Justice government in 2019”. https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/klaus-o-strategii-migracyjnej-czuje-sie-oszukany-rozmowa/ -- 19 YEARS AGO, in the second round of the presidential elections, Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk, securing 54.04% of the vote (23.10). -- 28 YEARS AGO, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of the 2nd term of office discontinued proceedings regarding the constitutional and criminal liability of persons associated with the introduction and implementation of martial law. -- SUPER EXPRESS CELEBRATES ITS 33RD ANNIVERSARY. -- BIRTHDAYS: Józef Lassota, Mira Suchodolska.