-- ONET FRONT-PAGE NEWS, WOW: 'Donald Tusk will appear at the central celebrations of Police Day in Warsaw. This is surprising because the Prime Minister's office had not previously announced such an activity. The information about it appeared just three hours before the ceremony.' https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/niespodziewany-ruch-donalda-tuska-informacja-trzy-godziny-przed-wydarzeniem/pvhhlyb,79cfc278 -- 'WE FILED A DISSENTING OPINION'. KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ ON THE CONTINUED LACK OF AGREEMENT ON PARTNERSHIP RIGHTS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/07/24 -- CRUELTY TOWARDS REFUGEES, INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN, DOES NOT WEAKEN PUTIN OR LUKASHENKO, BUT AMPLIFIES POLISH RACISM AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, REVEALS THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE STATE AND RULING ELITES - MAREK BEYLIN IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: 'Indeed, cruelty towards refugees, including women and children, does not weaken Putin or Lukashenko. Therefore, pushbacks are merely a Pis-like populist maneuver that, on one hand, amplifies Polish racism and, on the other, reveals the incompetence of the state and ruling elites, unable to create a sensible migration policy.' -- THE HEAD OF THE PEASANTS' PARTY BEHAVED LIKE A CHIEFTAIN OF A NATIONAL PARTY - CONTINUES MAREK BEYLIN IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: 'The head of the Peasants' Party behaved like a chieftain of a national party, who grants himself the right – in the name of his own version of patriotism – to interfere with content presented by an autonomous cultural institution. The comparison with Czarnek is therefore appropriate.' https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,31166142,co-nam-zostalo-z-pis-nasze-demokratyczne-okrucienstwa.html -- WILL DONALD TUSK KEEP THE ANTI-PIS CAMP IN LINE? THE OCTOBER 15 COALITION IS GOING THROUGH DIFFICULT DAYS. A DEFEAT IN THE VOTE ON THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION, DISAGREEMENTS OVER PARTNERSHIP RIGHTS AND SUNDAY TRADING. DOES THIS THREATEN THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE RULING COALITION? - PIOTR ŚMIŁOWICZ IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY. -- SOME PSL POLITICIANS ADMIT THAT AN ALLIANCE WITH PIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE IN THE EVENT OF A SPLIT ON THE RIGHT - CONTINUES ŚMIŁOWICZ IN TP: 'Some PSL politicians admit that an alliance with PiS is only possible in the event of a split on the right. Marek Sawicki, considered the biggest proponent of an agreement with PiS within the PSL, also argues that such a coalition would make no sense today. "If PiS settles its accounts for what it has stolen, and removes those responsible, then we can talk," he says.' -- KACZYŃSKI SECRETLY MET WITH THE FATHER OF THE PSL LEADER ON THIS MATTER - CONTINUES ŚMIŁOWICZ IN TP: 'Even Kaczyński secretly met on this matter with the father of the PSL leader, former Minister of Health in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government, Andrzej Kosiniak-Kamysz, but achieved nothing.' -- IN THIS TERM, IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO PASS ANY FORM OF AMENDMENT TO ABORTION LAW - ŚMIŁOWICZ STILL IN TP: 'One thing will probably not change even after the presidential elections, which one KO politician frankly admits – in this Sejm term, it will not be possible to pass any form of amendment to abortion law. Even after a change of president. And this, he says, is the irreversibility of the abortion rift.' https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/czy-donald-tusk-utrzyma-w-ryzach-oboz-antypisu-187742 -- IT IS NOT EXCLUDED, AS WE HEAR, THAT THE NEXT WAVE OF RECONSTRUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER - PIOTR ŚMIŁOWICZ IN GAZETA.PL: 'It is not excluded, as we hear, that the next wave of reconstruction will take place in September, although Prime Minister Tusk is expected to make the final decision on this matter only then. This time, changes at the ministerial level would mainly concern ministers from parties forming the coalition with KO, as a major reconstruction involving ministers recommended by Civic Coalition took place in May due to several of them running for the European Parliament. However, in this case, it is more difficult for the Prime Minister to make changes because the consent of the coalition partner is required.' -- THERE ARE THOSE IN KO WHO BELIEVE THAT THE HEAD OF THE CURRENT MINISTER OF JUSTICE SHOULD BE THE ONE TO FALL - CONTINUES ŚMIŁOWICZ IN GAZETA.PL: 'It is unknown what will happen to the Minister of Justice, Adam Bodnar, if the district court does not uphold the prosecution's appeal against the decision of the regional court regarding consent for the arrest of Marcin Romanowski. In such a situation, as we hear, someone's head in the Ministry of Justice will have to roll. There are those in KO who believe that the head of the current Minister of Justice should be the one to fall.' -- LATELY, THE COLLEGE OF SERVICES HAS BEEN MEETING SIGNIFICANTLY LESS OFTEN BECAUSE, AS WE HEAR, THE PRIME MINISTER HAS LOST SOME INTEREST IN THIS TOPIC - WRITES ŚMIŁOWICZ FURTHER IN GAZETA.PL: 'It is unlikely that the positions of Minister of Interior and Administration and coordinator of special services will be separated – Tomasz Siemoniak will continue to hold both, although there were plans to appoint someone else as coordinator. However, this matter has been postponed for now. The reasons? They are related, among other things, to the College of Special Services, which met several times a month in the first weeks of the government's existence. It has been meeting significantly less often recently because, as we hear, the Prime Minister has lost some interest in this topic.' https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,31167314,we-wrzesniu-w-rzadzie-poleca-glowy-oto-nazwiska-na-celowniku.html -- IS THIS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT? YOU ARE SHIT, NOT DEMOCRATS. FUCK OFF! - MARTA LEMPART YESTERDAY IN FRONT OF THE SEJM IN A REPORT BY DOMINIKA SITNICKA IN OKO.PRESS: https://oko.press/mecenasik-z-parciem-na-szklo-tygrysek-out-pod-sejmem-ostra-krytyka-konserwatywnych-poslow -- LEGIA WARSAW ULTRAS FIT WITHIN KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ'S PATRIOTIC CANON - KATARZYNA PRZYBORSKA IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: 'The visible tilt of the PSL to the right, towards authoritarian conservatism, is tilting the entire Sejm to the right. I understand that following polls is convenient for politicians in the short term, and they leave no illusions at the moment: since 2015, Poles' attitude towards migrants has been constantly worsening, at the worst moment, as many as three out of four people did not want to let them into Poland, and in 2021, more than half did not want to grant asylum to victims of conflicts and wars. However, indulging these sentiments means condoning the escalation of violence. What argument will politicians voting for shooting find in response to the announcements of ultras, to "patriotic patrols" on the border?' https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/miasto/kibole-legii-mieszcza-sie-w-kanonie-patriotycznym-kosiniaka-kamysza/ -- BIRTHDAYS: Katarzyna Lubnauer, Justyna Sieklucka, Władysław Serafin.