-- KOWALSKI: PARTS OF THE NATIONALISTS ARE STARTING TO DISAGREE WITH BOSAK'S POLITICS. I AM FOR THEM TO JOIN PIS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/07/02/ -- THE POPULARITY OF FAR-RIGHT POPULISTS IN SOME COUNTRIES ALARMS DEMOCRATIC EUROPE. HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT TRIGGER SELF-REFLECTION AMONG THE MAINSTREAM AND LIBERAL ELITES, OR SUCH REFLECTION IS SHALLOW - PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ IN INTERIA: “Western liberal elites don't know what to do to understand the world's situation without abandoning their own values. They don't know how to defend humanism while also being able to stop illegal immigration. They don't know how to fight for the climate without falling into absurd bureaucracy and EU centralism. They also don't know how to promote European integration while simultaneously maintaining national distinctiveness. -- WESTERN LIBERAL ELITES, HOWEVER, READILY SUCCUMB TO THE BLACKMAIL OF THE RADICAL LEFT AND BECOME CHAMPIONS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN MORAL MATTERS, AND THEN THEY ARE SURPRISED THAT THEIR BEWILDERED VOTERS, OFTEN AGAINST THEIR WILL, FLEE TO THE ARMS OF THE RIGHT,” Szubartowicz continues in Interia. -- TUSK APPEARS AS SOMEONE WHO HAS PARTIALLY LEARNED THIS "RIGHT-WING" LESSON. HE FOCUSES ON BORDER DEFENSE, STRENGTHENS THE BARRIER - SZUBARTOWICZ CONTINUES: “Tusk appears as someone who has partially learned this 'right-wing' lesson. He focuses on border defense, strengthens the barrier, opposes the migration pact, has changed his mind on major development investments expected by the electorate, and is willing to compromise with conservatives on the partnership law. This is, of course, not enough to keep the Polish anti-liberal right at bay permanently. But it is enough to sober up the 'beautiful souls' and noble romantics a bit.” https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-trwoga-europy-bez-refleksji,nId,7617387 -- ARDANOWSKI THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET TO KACZYŃSKI. HE WANTS TO LURE PIS MPS - PIOTR ŚMIŁOWICZ IN GAZETA.PL: “Former PiS agriculture minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski announces the imminent formation of a parliamentary club for his new movement, to which he wants to invite not only MPs from Kukiz'15 but also other parliamentarians from PiS, and perhaps even from PSL. He also does not rule out fielding his own candidate in the presidential elections.” (...) Within the next few weeks, Ardanowski intends to establish a parliamentary club for his movement, to which he primarily wants to invite MPs from the Kukiz’15 club because, as he says, he will be honored to cooperate with them. He does not rule out inviting other PiS parliamentarians, and even from PSL, especially those who fear annihilation by Civic Platform. He also seriously considers Konfederacja,” he adds. https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,31108782,ardanowski-rzuca-rekawice-kaczynskiemu-chce-wyciagac-poslow.html -- INTERNAL ENEMIES WILL RECEIVE THE MESSAGE THAT JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI IS WEAKENING, LOSING BATTLE AFTER BATTLE, AND PERHAPS – NATURALLY, IN THE INTEREST OF THE PARTY – IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO REPLACE HIM? - BOGUSŁAW CHRABOTA IN RZ: “The only thing is that from the perspective of his political strength, his authority, such electoral defeat will hang like a fate over the party's unity. Internal enemies will receive the message that Jarosław Kaczyński is weakening, losing battle after battle, and perhaps – naturally, in the interest of the party – it would be worthwhile to replace him? This is mere heresy; but politics is the art of the possible. Someone manages, or they don't.” https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art40749131-boguslaw-chrabota-krakowska-bitwa-o-autorytet-prezesa-kaczynskiego -- MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI PRESSED ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI TO REFUSE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NEW POLISH AMBASSADOR. SIMILAR EFFORTS WERE MADE IN KYIV AND WASHINGTON. RECALLED AMBASSADORS APPOINTED BY PIS ARE REBELLING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT - BARTOSZ T. WIELIŃSKI IN GW. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75399,31106843,ujawniamy-jakimi-metodami-pis-sabotuje-polityke-zagraniczna.html -- THE PARADOX IS THAT DONALD TUSK'S GOVERNMENT HAS THE MOST DECISIVE MAJORITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC. MEANWHILE, CRITICS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY QUESTION HIS DECISIONS - TOMASZ SAWCZUK IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “A certain paradox lies in the fact that Donald Tusk's government possesses the most decisive majority in the history of the Third Republic. Meanwhile, critics of liberal democracy question his decisions and even accuse him of acting unlawfully and against procedures. Yet, theoretically, they should support such actions if they are an expression of the political will of the sovereign, i.e., the democratic majority of voters.” -- THEY WANT POWER, NOT DEMOCRACY - SAWCZUK CONTINUES IN KL: “Furthermore, if the right is a minority in this picture, then according to the principles of 'democracy without adjectives,' it should generally support the restriction of minority rights when they try to block efficient governance – it is rather liberal democracy that safeguards minority rights, and yet the liberal version would be rejected. Either supporters of democracy without adjectives truly want liberal democracy, but would prefer conservative governments – and thus will have trouble pointing out differences between liberal democracy and bare 'democracy' – or they want power, not democracy.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2024/07/01/sawczuk-czego-chca-krytycy-demokracji-liberalnej/ -- JUDGES WHO DECIDED TO RELEASE A MURDERER FROM PRISON TO GIVE SOCIETY A BITTER LESSON IN THE NAME OF THE RULE OF LAW HAVE A DISTURBED SENSE OF JUSTICE - TOMASZ PIETRYGA IN RZ: “The problem, however, is that society does not need to receive lessons in such a format. After the verdict, there were comments that it opens a debate about so-called neo-judges. Meanwhile, this verdict should open a completely different discussion – about who presides in the Supreme Court and whether everyone is in their rightful place there. Because either someone there has a disturbed sense of justice, or they are guided by cynical calculation. Both approaches are unacceptable.” https://www.rp.pl/opinie-prawne/art40747581-tomasz-pietryga-zabojca-na-wolnosci-sad-najwyzszy-daje-watpliwa-lekcje-praworzadnosci -- BIRTHDAYS: Zbigniew Janas, Tomasz Siemoniak, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Błażej Strzelczyk.