-- "I HAVE A BIT OF A BOYISH SATISFACTION TODAY." TUSK ON POLLS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/10/29 -- PIS RECORDED A SHARP DROP IN SUPPORT COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS SURVEY - UNITED SURVEYS POLL FOR WP: 33.6% of respondents would vote for KO. Jarosław Kaczyński's party would receive 28.9% of the vote. This is a drop of as much as 4.4 percentage points. Konfederacja would take third place with 10.7% of respondents. The Third Way would garner 10.4%, and Lewica would gain 8.8%. 7.6% of respondents are still undecided. https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/nowy-sondaz-partyjny-klopoty-prawa-i-sprawiedliwosci-7086600117271200a -- "RADEK WENT TOO FAR, HOLDING TALKS WITH PSL BEHIND THE BOSS'S BACK" – TELLS US ONE OF THE KEY CIVIC PLATFORM POLITICIANS - WRITES JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: "– Radek went too far, holding talks with PSL behind the boss's back, one of the key Civic Platform politicians tells us. The boss (that's Tusk, as he's been called in PO for years – ed. note) didn't know about the Foreign Minister's conversations with Deputy Sejm Speaker Piotr Zgorzelski regarding possible support for Sikorski from the peasant party." https://www.rp.pl/analizy/art41360571-jacek-nizinkiewicz-dlaczego-akcje-radoslawa-sikorskiego-rosna-i-rafal-trzaskowski-nie-moze-byc-pewny-nominacji -- LET'S ASSUME PAULINA MATYSIAK WILL NOT RETURN TO THE PARTY'S FOLD AND DECIDES TO RUN INDEPENDENTLY. WHAT WILL ZANDBERG DO THEN? - ESTERA FLIEGER IN RZ: "Lewica, which is part of the ruling camp, will nominate its own candidate for the presidential election. Perhaps it will be one of the people who have just left Razem. Let's also assume that Paulina Matysiak will not return to the party's fold and will decide to run independently. What will Adrian Zandberg do then?" https://www.rp.pl/opinie-polityczno-spoleczne/art41361341-estera-flieger-paulina-matysiak-gotowa-do-startu-co-zrobi-adrian-zandberg -- IT APPEARS THAT IDEOLOGICAL RADICALISM HAS LOST TO LIFE'S PRACTICALITIES - MAREK KĘSKRAWIEC IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY: "We are currently witnessing a turning point in the ongoing dispute between Nowa Lewica and the Razem party, which many voters did not understand. It appears that ideological radicalism has lost to life's practicalities." https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/razem-juz-osobno-dlaczego-lewica-musiala-sie-podzielic-188766 -- LEFTISTS IN POLAND LACK COALITION ABILITIES EVEN AMONG THEMSELVES - PIOTR WÓJCIK IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: "The left should be teeming with people who place the interests of a group, collective, organization, party, or ultimately a political community above their own interests and current views. However, the opposite is true – the Polish left is populated by radical individualists who constantly get offended, throw tantrums, and argue amongst themselves." -- THAT IS SIMPLY DISHONEST TOWARDS THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM ONE HAS COLLABORATED FOR YEARS - WÓJCIK ON THE BIEJAT GROUP: "There was a risk that the party would collectively make a decision they disagreed with, so they threw in the towel without notice a few days before it was made. Such things should not be done in any organization, not even in a building materials wholesale, let alone in a political party, which by its nature is more collective than, for example, a company. That is simply dishonest towards the people with whom one has collaborated for years." https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/klasyczni-lewicowcy-w-polsce-nie-maja-zdolnosci-koalicyjnej-nawet-miedzy-soba/ -- WITHOUT A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF THE PARTY'S IMAGE AND ITS COMMUNICATION METHOD WITH VOTERS, IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO WIN OVER DISILLUSIONED VOTERS OF THE COALITION OF OCTOBER 15TH. I FEAR THAT THE POPULISM OF KONFEDERACJA MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN THIS REGARD - JAKUB MAJMUREK IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA. -- RAZEM IS A PARTY STUCK IN THE RUT OF STUDENT POLITICS - MAJMUREK CONTINUES: "Razem is a party that is stuck in the rut of student politics and has never managed to get out of it. Especially that part of Razem that will soon leave the Lewica club. But the plan the party outlines in its statement would require taking a completely different direction." https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/czy-w-tym-kraju-jest-elektorat-dla-lewicy-zandberga/ -- THE GOVERNMENT HAS FORGOTTEN ABOUT ENTREPRENEURS - ŁUKASZ GUZA IN RZ: "What will entrepreneurs talk about during the upcoming holidays? About Christmas Eve being a day off? Problems with the promised contribution holidays? Most likely, precisely about the fact that the government has forgotten about them." https://www.rp.pl/opinie-prawne/art41362661-lukasz-guza-dlaczego-przedsiebiorcy-czuja-ze-rzad-o-nich-zapomnial -- KPO FUNDS FOR POLAND. WE NOTED AN ORGANIZATIONAL "EMBARRASSMENT" - KATARZYNA SZYMAŃSKA-BORGINON IN RMF: "It is an embarrassment for the Polish authorities that they are doing this at the last minute. The fact that new norms for coal are necessary due to smog has been known since the Morawiecki government's tenure," Katarzyna Szymańska-Borginon heard." https://www.rmf24.pl/polityka/news-pieniadze-z-kpo-dla-polski-zanotowalismy-organizacyjny-blama,nId,7845342 -- WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE, BUT IT PROBABLY WON'T BE, BECAUSE THE RULERS LACK THE COURAGE. SO A MOMENT MUST COME WHEN THEY WILL HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. AND THIS MOMENT IS APPROACHING - ANDRZEJ SOŚNIERZ IN CONVERSATION WITH JUDYTA WATOŁA IN GW: "We are talking about what should be done, but it probably won't be, because the rulers lack the courage. So a moment must come when they will have no other choice. And this moment is approaching. We constantly hear promises that the National Health Fund will finance this or that. This is unsustainable in the long run, because eventually there won't be enough for basic things. When an employee costs a hospital over a million or two million a year, then with several or a dozen or so such employees, its finances will collapse." https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31418526,andrzej-sosnierz-system-opieki-zdrowotnej-czeka-katastrofa.html -- BIRTHDAYS: Jerzy Fedorowicz, Wojciech Kolarski (turns 52), Henryka Bochniarz, Tomasz Nałęcz, Waldemar Witkowski.