-- PRIME MINISTER ON THE SCHOOL YEAR, SAWICKI ON LACK OF SIGNALS FROM PIS, BOSAK ON COOPERATION WITH KUKIZ, NEUMANN ON TRZASKOWSKI'S PROBLEM AND SIEMONIAK AT THE HEAD OF THE CLUB - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2020/09/01/ -- GERMANY HAS ALREADY COMPLETED RECONCILIATION - JERZY HASZCZYŃSKI IN RZ: “Another anniversary of the outbreak of World War II painfully reminds us that Germany believes it has dealt with its crimes exemplary. That it no longer has any obligations towards Poles. Enough of this! Finished. (...) Chancellor Angela Merkel also mentioned the unimaginable crimes and the extraordinary Polish readiness for reconciliation in a letter to the newly elected President Andrzej Duda in 2015. But today, it is difficult to even find this letter on the websites of German institutions. It appears that Germany no longer wants to be bothered by stories of unimaginable German crimes.” https://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/308319903-Haszczynski-Niemcy-juz-zakonczyli-pojednanie.html -- BELARUSIANS REALIZED THE AUTHORITIES ARE FAILING - SŁAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI IN ONEJCIE: “If Lukashenka doesn't come up with something new, they might even grow again, because people have realized that the authorities are failing. Officials see this too. Lukashenka's repeated displays with a Kalashnikov have a rather opposite effect to the intended one. A confident ruler in control of the situation does not need to put on such shows. Nor does he need to call Putin every now and then, whom he accused of conspiring with the opposition just three weeks ago.” https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/sierakowski-nowa-strategia-lukaszenki-nie-dziala/9sp01f2,79cfc278 -- THEY APPROPRIATED WEALTH THANKS TO INFLUENCE IN THE COMMUNIST APPARATUS AND BUILT MEDIA EMPIRES IN A WAY UNAVAILABLE TO OTHERS, NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SO GENIAL AND EFFICIENT - MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI: “Because the legacy of Solidarity does not grant a mandate to praise those who enriched themselves thanks to influence in the communist apparatus, who built media empires through concessions unavailable to others. This is what happened, but do not try to convince us that they were simply so genial and efficient. Because it was not an endeavor to achieve a media monopoly for solely one political camp, by organizing monopolies and stigmatizing those who disagree with it. Because it does not consist of a policy of selling off every piece of significant Polish property, including media, into foreign hands.” -- THE MADNESS OF THE ELITES STEMS FROM THE HUMILIATION OF SHOWING THAT DIFFERENT POLITICS IS POSSIBLE - KARNOWSKI'S CONCLUSION: “The legacy of 'Solidarity' is being implemented in Poland today; the level of satisfaction of selfish privileged groups is no longer the sole criterion for governance in Poland. And this is happening precisely because power changed in Poland in 2015. And it is happening with the almost frantic opposition of the Third Polish Republic camp. This madness stems from the humiliation that it was for these people to show that different politics is possible.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/515641-solidarnosc-nie-szla-pod-sztandarem-zaborczej-ideologii -- ZIOBRISTS' ATTACKS ON THE GOVERNMENT ENRAGED KACZYŃSKI - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY: “Ziobrists' attacks on members of the ruling team enraged Kaczyński. The party leader acted in his style: he ordered the head of TVP, Jacek Kurski (formerly a member of Ziobro's party, now his ally), to cut them out of TVP programs. Rumors are returning about the offer that PiS is sending to PSL, i.e., replacing Ziobro's party in the government. – Today we are much more determined and more experienced than in 2011 or 2012. We have active, recognizable MPs. We will manage even if PiS kicks us out of the government – says one of Ziobro's people. – Morawiecki's premiership is a drama for the right. We will fight for our own, including primarily for worldview matters, which he avoids. So the most interesting is yet to come.” -- OPERATION DESIGNED TO WEAKEN MORAWIECKI - STANKIEWICZ FURTHER IN TP: “Since the elections, Ziobro and his people have been conducting an operation designed to weaken Morawiecki and show their own firm distinctiveness. The confrontation with LGBT, the demand to renounce the convention against violence towards women, attempts to force confrontational policy towards the EU, tightening the screws on non-governmental organizations – this was just the beginning. In addition, in recent days, there has been an open attack on the Minister of Education for dismissing the Łódź superintendent, whom the Ziobrists are prematurely casting as a pillar in the culture war. Ziobro's people also attacked Morawiecki's right-hand man in state-owned business, the head of the Polish Development Fund, Paweł Borys. They criticized him for appointing a manager from the Civic Platform era as the CEO of Rafako.” https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/ziobro-sobie-poradzi-164701 -- CZAJKI IS DROWNING TRZASKOWSKI'S MOVEMENT, POSTPONED INAUGURATION AND UNCERTAINTY - PAWEŁ WROŃSKI IN GW: “Everything indicates that the founding meeting of Rafał Trzaskowski's new movement will not take place on September 5. - We don't want to drown the new initiative in the sewage flowing into Czajka - says one of the Civic Platform politicians.” -- PERHAPS THE CZAJKA FAILURE, MORE POWERFUL THAN LAST YEAR'S, MAY HAVE A MUCH GREATER SIGNIFICANCE FOR TRZASKOWSKI'S CAREER - WROŃSKI FURTHER: “However, the Czajka failure – more powerful than last year's – may have much greater significance for the new movement, and perhaps also for Trzaskowski's career. Everything indicates that not only will the announcement of the program assumptions during the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the August strikes be postponed. It was intended to have a highly symbolic character. It is unlikely that the meeting scheduled for September 5 to inaugurate the movement will take place. Perhaps the Czajka failure will drown the entire initiative altogether:” -- RAFAŁ'S CREDIBILITY DEPENDS ON THIS - PO POLITICIAN IN WROŃSKI'S ARTICLE: “Another Civic Platform politician says directly: – Rafał's credibility depends on how he deals with the Czajka failure, not on how beautifully he speaks and what visions of the future he outlines. If we want to present a new quality in politics, the only measure of that quality is effectiveness. We must show voters that we are the answer to PiS's bad governance. I cannot imagine a new movement being inaugurated at a time when its leader is unable to cope with such a failure.” https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,26256422,czajka-topi-ruch-trzaskowskiego-przesunieta-inauguracja-i-nie.html -- TUSK COULD ONCE AGAIN TAKE THE LEAD OF THE PLATFORM - JERZY BOROWCZAK SPEAKS TO SE: “– We won't win elections with Budka or Schetyna – PO senator Antoni Mężydło (66) recently told us. Now, in an interview with 'SE', MP Jerzy Borowczak points out who could become the leader of PO in the future. - Tusk was an excellent head of PO and I think he could return. His talents are known to me. However, he would have to wait a bit, because we just chose new authorities, but he would cope as a leader; Tusk would be best for war. He is a very communicative and intelligent politician, he will talk to anyone, smile, but he will also scold if necessary. It was with Tusk that we managed to win elections many times in a row. And we would probably still be winning if we hadn't made the reform to raise the retirement age, which we didn't consult with the public – Jerzy Borowczak tells us. https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/posel-po-wie-jak-jego-partia-moze-wygrac-wybory-z-pis-tusk-na-szefa-po-aa-vYqJ-vKhG-jN1o.html -- THE PLATFORM NEEDS INTERNAL DEMOCRATIC REVITALIZATION AND NEW PEOPLE - TOMASZ SIEMONIAK IN A CONVERSATION WITH MICHAŁ KOLANKO IN RZ: “The direction is clear – it's about ensuring greater openness. Understood literally, meaning, for example, making it easier to join PO. We want to meet the expectations that led many people to become interested in politics after the presidential elections and want to join PO, but for various reasons, the bar for participation was set high. PO needs internal democratic revitalization and new people.” -- SIEMONIAK ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER HE WANTS TO RUN FOR CLUB LEADER: “Who will be the leader is a secondary issue. For now, it's Borys Budka. Many people are ready to fill this role, it is important that the elections do not proceed with conflict and that the result is the selection of a candidate who will cooperate well with the party chairman, with Rafał Trzaskowski, the board, coalition partners, and the rest of the opposition.” https://www.rp.pl/Koalicja-Obywatelska/200839914-Siemoniak-Platformie-potrzebni-sa-nowi-ludzie.html -- GOWIN WOULD MOST LIKE TO RETURN TO GOVERNMENT, EMILEWICZ WITH SOLORZ? - TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK IN DGP: “Personalities are key. Jarosław Gowin would most like to return to the government as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister. PiS itself realizes that the return of the leader of Porozumienie is unavoidable, because strategically the Ziobrists support him. However, so far the proposal on the table was for him to take the position of Deputy Prime Minister without portfolio. And that is not enough. Including Gowin in the cabinet raises the question of what's next for Deputy Prime Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz, Vice-President of Porozumienie? Some of our interlocutors are convinced that she received an offer to join one of Zygmunt Solorz's businesses related to renewable energy sources.” -- EMILEWICZ'S COLLEAGUES: IT'S SPIN: “Another person, from the circle of the Deputy Prime Minister's associates, claims that all information appearing about Emilewicz's future professional plans is currently just 'spin' from people trying to gain something from her potential departure. – The authors of this spin should be sought at Nowogrodzka [PiS headquarters] – she suggests. Another interlocutor from the ruling camp points out that Emilewicz is also an MP, which raises the question of whether she will be willing to resign from this mandate as well and weaken the numerical strength of the Gowin camp in the Sejm. However, even opposition MPs note that Emilewicz's move to business does not necessarily mean losing her seat in the Sejm. – After all, she can be an honorary MP and only collect a diet. Everything depends on the agreement she would sign with the business – points out a Civic Platform MP.” -- ZIOBRISTS ARE FIGHTING FOR A DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER POSITION, BUT ZIOBRO DOES NOT WANT THIS FUNCTION FOR HIMSELF - ŻÓŁCIAK FURTHER: “We were unable to contact the person concerned yesterday. Her colleagues do not confirm these revelations. The Deputy Prime Minister still has a lot to do in her position – we hear. However, it is very realistic that the Ziobrists – right from the start of the talks – will demand the head of Minister of Climate Michał Kurtyka and will fight for a Deputy Prime Minister portfolio for their representative. However, Zbigniew Ziobro himself does not intend to seek this position.” https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/7811092,jaroslaw-gowin-jadwiga-emilewicz-rekonstrukcja-rzadu.html -- WALESA ASSIGNED REGARDING JOHN PAUL II? - JACEK KARNOWSKI: “But the fact that Wałęsa is attacking John Paul II right now, as if on order, in line with the needs of forces trying to break the Christian paradigm in Poland, is more than questionable. Because it really looks like some kind of 'assignment', perhaps discreet, indirect, or perhaps not, maybe even tough. Above all, it turns out that for Wałęsa, even the attitude towards the Church – because that's what this is about – is something that can be played dirty, depending on current needs.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/515637-walesa-uderza-w-sw-jana-pawla-ii-zgodnie-z-zapotrzebowaniem -- MUCH IS ON HIS WAY OUT? - RADOSŁAW GRUCA IN OKO.PRESS: “Paweł Mucha, deputy head of the chancellery of President Andrzej Duda, is to leave his post – OKO.press has established. This is another change among the president's closest associates. Earlier, the media reported on plans to send the current head of the chancellery, Halina Szymańska, to a lucrative position within the EU structures. Rumors about Paweł Mucha's departure from the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland have been circulating among Andrzej Duda's associates for several days. We have also confirmed them among politicians from the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, where Mucha comes from and where he has been a regional assembly councilor since 2014. According to our interlocutors from West Pomerania, the current deputy head of the chancellery was seeking a position in a company affiliated with PGE – the Dolna Odra Power Plant Complex. Its branches are located in Szczecin and Nowy Czarnów, near Gryfino where Mucha permanently resides.” -- IN THE PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE, THE BELIEF IS THAT ZIOBRO'S PEOPLE ARE BEHIND THE LEAK, BUT THERE IS A CONVICTION THAT MUCH SHOULD NOT BE TRICKED INTO A TRAP A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION - GRUCA FURTHER IN OKO: “Although in Andrzej Duda's entourage the conviction prevails that Zbigniew Ziobro's people were behind the disclosure of the matter, because they issued a positive opinion on the request to be released from the restraining order against his concubine and her daughter, nevertheless, it is still considered that Mucha should not have been tricked into such a trap a few weeks before the election” – a United Right politician involved in the election campaign tells us. https://oko.press/minister-mucha-na-wylocie/ -- LESSON OF SOLIDARITY FOR THE OPPOSITION - COMBINING FREEDOM WITH COMMUNITY - ŁUKASZ LIPIŃSKI IN POLITYKA: “Now we are dealing with the opposite model: political rights are taken away, and in return, an illusion of improved material situation is given (an illusion, because in the long term this model will not fulfill this promise). The lesson for the current opposition is that without combining these two elements – freedom and community – success cannot be achieved. Some seeds of such thinking were visible in Rafał Trzaskowski's campaign, who demanded both respect for the constitution and help for the weakest. So perhaps this 'Solidarity', which is approaching its fifth decade, still has something to teach us?” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1969588,1,sierpien-80-solidarnosc-juz-tylko-do-muzeum.read?src=mt -- SOLIDARITY VETERANISM STILL A PASSPORT - MYTH OR TRANSFORM OR SADLY SHOVE INTO THE SAFETY TRAINING ROOM - STEFAN SĘKOWSKI IN NOWA KONFEDERACJA: “30 years after the overthrow of 'communism', Solidarity veteranism still serves as a passport to high positions, although it does not translate into competence today. This myth should be transformed or sadly shoved into the Safety Training Room of the Gdańsk Shipyard.” -- THE MYTH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INNATE DISTANCE TOWARDS STATE INSTITUTIONS - SĘKOWSKI FURTHER: “The generation that matured in the Polish People's Republic is also chronically incapable of creating strong institutions, the effects of which we have been observing for thirty years. This problem may be reproduced as long as the myth of 'Solidarity' remains alive among younger generations. It is responsible for the innate distance towards state institutions, understood not as a common-sense and freedom-loving principle of limited trust, but as fundamental alienation from what regulates and creates the framework for public life. It can be replaced by the conviction of one's own moral superiority, leading to centralization. In this context, every protest and every form of it, by virtue of its existence, gains moral justification: guardians of disabled people can occupy the Sejm hall for weeks, a student protesting in her own name and usurping the right to represent the entire community rises in the eyes of some to the role of a modern Anna Walentynowicz. Often, these protests take place under the white and red flag, although they frequently aim to achieve a particular interest at the expense of the general public, as in the case of defending pension privileges for miners in 2005, achieved through the destruction of others' property. The promotion of Andrzej Lepper to the pinnacle of his political career was possible only by combining reluctance to unequivocally oppose vandalism and brutality with its short-sighted support by the opposition of the day.” https://nowakonfederacja.pl/szkodliwy-mit-solidarnosci/ -- WE HAVE BECOME PALER AS A NATION, IT TURNED OUT THAT ELECTIONS CAN BE WON BY THREATENING POLES WITH THE ARRIVAL OF SEVEN THOUSAND REFUGEES - RADEK SIKORSKI IN CONVERSATION WITH TOMASZ SAWCHUK IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “We have become paler as a nation. It turned out that in Poland, elections can be won by threatening Poles with the arrival of seven thousand refugees. And we are talking about a country that for 300 years sent millions of refugees abroad, and in its history accepted tens of thousands of Scots, Dutch, Germans, tens of thousands of Chechens, tens of thousands of Greeks, not to mention Jews. And somehow Poland did not stop being Poland. Now nationalist sentiments have been successfully stirred up by threatening that a few thousand carefully selected people will find refuge in Poland, i.e., for example, Christian widows with children from Syria. This means that we are terribly jealous of our very recent prosperity, terribly fearful for our identity, or we are afraid that our assimilation abilities are weaker than before. Our willingness to share is much less than in the past. At the same time, the government's stance was hypocritical, because it won by inciting against refugees, and in recent years it has accepted tens of thousands of Nepalis, Pakistanis, and Indians.” -- PIS POLITICIANS SPECULATE ABOUT CREATING A CATHOLIC-NATIONAL DICTATORSHIP IN THE STYLE OF FATHER TISO - SIKORSKI FURTHER: “These are some moonshot visions, like the infamous Three Seas Initiative as a way to deter Russia and balance Germany. Let's remember that PiS politicians are openly pondering whether Poland should remain in the European Union at all. They speculate that as soon as the balance of payments changes, it will be necessary to run for the hills and create a national-Catholic dictatorship in the style of Father Tiso. Then Ukraine, aspiring to join the European Union, will indeed be a problem.” -- PIS IS NOT CONDUCTING FOREIGN POLICY, BUT INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM - SIKORSKI FURTHER: “There is only the question of whether we have such a vision for the future, and not just looking at what Bandera did to our ancestors. As if Poland had not committed any sins against the Ukrainians. I do not accept this PiS obsession with the past, because it is a game fueled by Russia and effective only on the domestic front. Besides, I believe that PiS is not conducting foreign policy at all, in the sense of maneuvering on the international stage so that Poland climbs the hierarchy of nations. PiS conducts international journalism and drains our material and intangible resources solely for the purpose of hardening its own electorate at home. Like late Sanation. We know how it ended.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2020/09/01/pis-owscy-nacjonalisci-szkodza-narodowi/ -- REGARDING CHURCH PEDOPHILIA, ZIOBRO LISTENS MORE TO THE VOICE FROM TORUŃ THAN ROME - TOMASZ KRZYŻAK IN RZ: “The text was therefore removed from the quarterly, but COD posted it on its own. It is easy to find and form your own opinion. I don't know where the theses 'bordering on Christianophobia' were spotted, although I have read it several times. Moreover, the same theses have been repeated many times in public statements by Archbishop Wojciech Polak, Primate of Poland and at the same time delegate of the Polish Episcopal Conference for the Protection of Children and Youth. So, what is it about? In the Ministry of Justice, a specific assessment of the reality surrounding us has been in effect for some time. In many matters, its leadership listens more to the voice coming from Toruń than from Rome. Since they claim in Toruń that the problem of pedophilia in the Church is exaggerated, then in the name of defending 'Christian values' – as Minister Ziobro recently stated in 'Rz' – other voices must be silenced. Because the truth must be on our side.” https://www.rp.pl/Analizy/308319917-Krzyzak-Sluchac-bardziej-Torunia-niz-Rzymu.html -- BIRTHDAYS: Mirosław Chojecki, Urszula Augustyn.