‘Five minutes of love policy’ and it all comes to a brutal end, Gazeta Wyborcza comments the  Parliamentary debate, summing the government’s one year in office.

Press reviewed Agnieszka Bielawska.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed for armistice and support of the opposition Law and Justice for the government reforms and adopting the common currency. The leader of the Law and Justice party, the president’s twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, writes Gazeta Wyborcza, soon dispelled his hopes. Kaczynski replied to the Premier’s appeal with accusations and criticism, and the debate turned into a stormy exchange of opinions between the Prime Minister and Law and Justice leader.

Dziennik writes that the duel started, after the Premier presented his expose, to a partly empty house since during his speech Law and Justice deputies chose to remain absent. They entered only when their leader took the floor, to back him up. Moreover, the haggling took on a bitter form, writes Dziennik, everything went under criticism: minister, foreign policy, euro zone entry and patriotism.

Rzeczpospolita brings an interview with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who points to the importance of national identity. He declares that Law and Justice supports  the idea of national integration, the importance of teaching patriotic values, national history and culture. Kaczynski does not spare critical words at the Prime Minister adding that under his rule the Parliamentary sessions turned into common rows where the language used in no way resembles Polish of political elites. Law and Justice leader underlines in the interview that he is getting ready for a come back of his party and does not rely on opinion polls which for the time being show a significant drop in Law and Justice’s popularity. 

English rules, writes Dziennik commenting the introduction of a foreign language from the first grade of primary school. Some 92% of primary school pupils began classes in English, which shows that despite earlier criticism, doubts, lack of teachers and whatever other obstacles schools and parents chose to present, the  reform was a very important one. It will profit sooner than we expect, writes the daily and open the eyes of skeptics to the fact that knowledge of at least one foreign language is as important as knowledge of the mother tongue.

All the papers today bid farewell to the great actor Jan Machulski, who died on Thursday. Kwinto will not play for us any more read the headlines, referring to Machulski’s best loved role as Kwinto the safebreaker and trumpeter, in the film ‘Vabank’, directed by Julisz Machulski ,his son. Jan Machulski was a film and theatre actor, he was also a director and founder of the Ochota Theater in Warsaw. He taught at the Lodz film school and as Rzeczpospolita writes will be remembered by all generations of students. Gazeta Wyborcza writes that the departure of Jan Machulski is a great loss; it is a farewell to a representative of a generation of culture, class, understanding and wisdom. The values, which Machulski so eagerly shared with his students and pupils.