— FACE THE EU SUPPORTERS: FROM BRUSSELS WE RECEIVED SUBSIDIES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, FARMERS AND GRANTS FOR COMPANIES, AND AT THE SAME TIME THE RUIN OF INDUSTRY, WE HAVE ENTERED INTO A LOSS OF COMPETITIVENESS, ENERGY STABILITY AND A DECLINE IN PRODUCTION DYNAMICS – KRZYSZTOF BOSAK ON X: “Face this, EU supporters: from Brussels we received subsidies for local governments, farmers, and grants for companies, and at the same time the ruin of heavy industry and mining, the ongoing ruin of the machine and chemical industry, inflated heat prices, doubled energy prices, and irrational, incredibly capital-intensive investment tasks in energy, resulting in the entrenchment of inflated energy prices for generations. We have entered into a loss of competitiveness, energy stability, and a decline in industrial production dynamics, adding to this the incapacitation regarding oversight of trade, the judiciary, and soon, perhaps, migration and armaments. We are executing an unfavorable deal, which we never negotiated in its entirety.”
https://x.com/krzysztofbosak/status/1903334993386262623

— MILITARY TRANSFORMATION CONSUMES HUGE RESOURCES, SHIFTS PRIORITIES AND CAN LEAD TO CENTRALIZATION OF POWER, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELD OF SECURITY AND ARMS PRODUCTION, WHERE ALREADY WEAK MECHANISMS OF CITIZEN CONTROL WILL BE EVEN WEAKER – LESZEK MILLER ON X: “These actions, although not directly violating the founding treaties, represent a serious departure from their spirit – and may lead the Union down a path that its founders would find at least disturbing. After all, they shift the treaty's emphasis – from 'preserving peace' to 'managing conflict'. Moreover, they evoke tendencies to weaken its other pillars. Indeed, military transformation consumes huge resources, shifts priorities, and can lead to centralization of power, especially in the field of security and arms production, where already weak mechanisms of citizen control will be even weaker.”
https://x.com/LeszekMiller/status/1903037132110766098

— I FIND IT HARD TO BEAR THAT BRAUN IS BEING SILENCED; HE IS AN MEP, WHERE IS HE SUPPOSED TO SPEAK? – LESZEK MILLER ON MONIKA JARUZELSKA: https://x.com/josearcadio88/status/1903187773936357567

— BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF MENTZEN'S RALLY YESTERDAY IN BIAŁYSTOK: https://x.com/mefistofelleess/status/1903209838294736967

— TRZASKOWSKI'S WELCOME TODAY IN SZCZECINEK: https://x.com/WiolaPaprocka/status/1903404523890065608

— THE HALL DURING NAWROCKI'S RALLY IN IŁAWA:
https://x.com/zaklinaskowron/status/1903148388817780897

— THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITE HERE IS ADRIAN ZANDBERG FROM RAZEM, WHO THREATENS THAT IF WE LOWER THE CONTRIBUTION FOR ENTREPRENEURS, THERE WILL BE NO MONEY TO TREAT CHILDREN – LESZEK KOSTRZEWSKI IN GW: “The biggest hypocrite here is Adrian Zandberg from Razem, who threatens that if we lower the contribution for entrepreneurs, there will be no money to treat children. Mr. Deputy, and what do you propose to pay larger family pensions to seniors (which you voted for) when fewer and fewer young people are in the labor market and therefore their contributions will not cover ZUS expenses?”

— KONFEDERACJA DEMANDS A RADICAL REDUCTION OF THE CONTRIBUTION FOR ENTREPRENEURS, AND IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, IT WILL VOTE AGAINST ANY REDUCTION – KOSTRZEWSKI FURTHER IN GW: “Let's summarize then: Konfederacja demands a radical reduction of the contribution for entrepreneurs, and if it doesn't happen, it will vote against any reduction. And entrepreneurs will continue to pay contributions under the PiS-era 'Polish Deal' version.”

— ONLY 130 THOUSAND LUMP-SUM TAXPAYERS WITH THE HIGHEST INCOME WILL LOSE – KOSTRZEWSKI AGAIN: “In total, 2.45 million entrepreneurs are expected to benefit from the change. They are to save PLN 4.6 billion. Only 130,000 lump-sum taxpayers with the highest incomes will lose.”
https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,147880,31787664,w-sprawie-skladki-zdrowotnej-pis-konfederacja-i-lewica-osiagnely.html

— LET EWA WRZOSEK NOT BE SILENT. A POLEMIC WITH EW A IVANOVA'S TEXT – WOJCIECH CZUCHNOWSKI IN GW: “On television, we see footage of a group of PiS female boxers planning a physical attack on prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek; on the internet, a propagandist of the previous government publishes her personal data. And I am sad when I read in my newspaper that the 'Wrzosek project' is a mistake.”

— IT WAS A PROFESSIONAL HEARING, UNQUESTIONABLE – CZUCHNOWSKI FURTHER IN GW: “It was a professional hearing, unquestionable. If Barbara Skrzypek had not died three days after her visit to the prosecutor's office, if PiS had not made a disgusting spectacle of slander out of this death, it would have been one of many hearings in this case.”

— “THE FACE” OF ACCOUNTABILITY IS ALSO THE 12 MILLION POLES WHO SAID “NO” TO THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT ON OCTOBER 15, 2023, BECAUSE THEY WERE ALSO FED UP WITH THEFT AND THE DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY – CZUCHNOWSKI AGAIN: “The 'face' of accountability is also the 12 million Poles who said 'no' to the previous government on October 15, 2023, because they were also fed up with theft and the destruction of democracy. Ewa Wrzosek was one of them. This should also be remembered when we talk about the 'political engagement' of Ms. Prosecutor. PiS was heading straight for replacing democracy with an authoritarian system. They used political violence to do so, broke the constitution, and destroyed all obstacles in their path. Only the resistance of citizens and a few communities – judges and independent media – and support from the European Union institutions protected Poland from the Hungarian scenario.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31788200,niech-ewa-wrzosek-nie-siedzi-cicho-polemika-z-tekstem-ewy-ivanovej.html

— SIKORSKI WILL ENGAGE IN TRZASKOWSKI'S CAMPAIGN. BUT NOT TUSK. WHY? – DOMINIKA SITNICKA AND AGATA SZCZĘŚNIAK IN OKO.PRESS: “Since Trzaskowski's campaign staff wants to use the Foreign Minister as a resource in the campaign, the question arises: what about the Prime Minister? Campaign staff claim that Donald Tusk simply does not have an electorate that Rafał Trzaskowski would not already have. (…) We have confirmed with people close to Radosław Sikorski that the Foreign Minister will indeed join the campaign. He is to participate in Trzaskowski's campaign on the ground, 'but for now, a lot is happening on the international stage.'”

— THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SIKORSKI IS THE OLDER BROTHER IN THIS DUO – SZCZĘŚNIAK AND SITNICKA FURTHER IN OKO: “Although Trzaskowski recalls his experience as an MEP or Deputy Foreign Minister responsible for cooperation with the European Union, there is no doubt that Sikorski is the older brother in this duo. Possessing current contacts at the highest levels of power with Poland's important foreign partners.”

— FOR PIS, THE DREAM SCENARIO WOULD BE TO TURN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS INTO A POPULARITY PLEBISCITE FOR THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF – SITNICKA FURTHER IN OKO.PRESS: “The absence of Donald Tusk's involvement in the campaign is therefore about something completely different. The government's weak approval ratings (although they have improved slightly recently) are an obvious threat to the KO candidate. For PiS, the dream scenario would be to turn the presidential elections into a popularity plebiscite for the government itself.”

— NO MINISTRY IS HURRYING TO PREPARE DOUBTFUL REGULATIONS REGARDING 800+ FOR UKRAINIAN CHILDREN IN POLAND – SZCZĘŚNIAK AND SITNICKA FURTHER: “So far, Rafał Trzaskowski's loudest initiative has been the postulate to withdraw the 800+ benefit from unemployed Ukrainian refugee children. However cynical, it was well received by the public. It allowed KO to dominate the campaign narrative for a while. But the law is still not there, and the reason, as we hear, is that no ministry is eager to draft regulations that are, at best, pointless, and most likely – harmful from the perspective of the social benefits system and migration policy.”

— “OWN” PRESIDENT IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH FOR DONALD TUSK'S GOVERNMENT – SITNICKA AND SZCZĘŚNIAK FURTHER IN OKO: “An 'own' president is a matter of life and death for Donald Tusk's government. Without the palace, no more significant reform will be possible. This means, among other things, that the judiciary will continue to sink into chaos and internal struggles – to the detriment of all citizens. A PiS president would mean broken morale for the October 15 Coalition and a tailwind for the United Right camp, which is already dreaming of early elections.”

— WE HAVE STARTED TO FEAR WAR AGAIN, SO NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR A WAR OVER A CHAIR – WRITE SZCZĘŚNIAK AND SITNICKA: “In the Warsaw mayor's campaign staff, we hear that they regularly survey Poles about the scenario of having the president and prime minister from the same party. Campaign staff do not provide specific data but admit that this situation caused distrust in a significant group of voters. The mood is said to have changed radically in recent weeks. The turning point was said to be the disastrous conversation between Trump and Zelensky in the Oval Office. It was then that we could see that the world was changing radically, that existing alliances and guarantees could burst like soap bubbles, and that the entire known security architecture was being rebuilt. In simpler terms – we have started to fear war again, so now is not the time for a war over a chair.”
https://oko.press/sikorski-kampania-trzaskowskiego-dlaczego-nie-tusk

— INDEED, FOLLOWING SUCH A DECISION, POLAND'S INDEPENDENCE WOULD BE LIMITED – PIOTR ZAREMBA IN INTERIA ON THE EP RESOLUTION: “Indeed, following such a decision, Poland's independence would be limited. Given the EU's years-long hedging towards Russia, this can hardly be considered anything less than a risk. At the same time, it would be a step towards treating the Union as a superpower with its own 'European army.'”

— CERTAIN WEAKNESS IN THE RIGHT'S POSITION IS EVIDENT. BECAUSE THE EU ELITES DID NOT INVENT TRUMP'S SIGNALS: "DEFEND YOURSELVES" – ZAREMBA FURTHER IN RZ: “This shows a certain weakness in their position. Because the EU elites did not invent Trump's signals: 'defend yourselves.' Some response from Brussels and European capitals is natural. PiS politicians find it hard to say this because they cherish an idealized myth of Trump, ready to help Poland. This is a product of their imagination rather than reality, although it is indeed derived from the gestures of the American president. Gestures that cost nothing.”

— TUSK REPLACES IGNORANCE WITH THE EXCESSIVE ZEAL OF A EUROPEAN TOP STUDENT, WHICH HE USES FOR ONE PURPOSE: PERMANENTLY HAMMERING HIS OPPOSITION – ZAREMBA AGAIN IN INTERIA: “I fear he himself does not know the answers to the emerging questions. He replaces this ignorance with the excessive zeal of a European top student, which he uses for one purpose: permanently hammering his opposition. I read this European resolution and ask myself, to whom are all these endeavors addressed? Point 10 mentions the 'European Defence Union.' What kind of entity is that?”

— IT WOULD SEEM NECESSARY TO AT LEAST TEST TRUMP'S INTENTIONS – ZAREMBA'S CONCLUSION IN INTERIA: “Of course, Trump is also an enigma, an unknown. Even on the issue of Ukraine, he says one thing one day, contradicts himself the next, and in practice, against Putin's stubbornness, he proves less effective than the hopes of the right, including Polish right-wingers, would suggest. So we have a clash of two mysteries. But it would seem necessary to at least test his intentions. Is his enigmatic nature enough for Tusk to repeatedly chant the same old tune about PiS being 'sold to Russia' (in one tweet, he directly used such an insult)? This is a recipe only for us to hate each other more here in Poland. And whether we are dealing with a clash of two political ideas or two ritualistic, party songs, they change nothing in our relations with the outside world.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-tusk-kontra-pis-bezpieczenstwo-jako-temat-do-bezsensownych-o,nId,21322650

— KACZYŃSKI WANTS TO SAVE NAWROCKI BY ATTACKING THE EU – CEZARY MICHALSKI IN INTERIA: “Kaczyński is not driven by 'betrayal.' He still believes that his return to power (and at least saving himself and PiS as the most important representative of the Polish right) is what is most beneficial for Poland's sovereignty. Therefore, with Karol Nawrocki's falling approval ratings and the prospect of him being overtaken by Sławomir Mentzen, Jarosław Kaczyński has opted for an even greater resemblance of his party to Konfederacja.”

— THE SHOUTS OF “TREASON!” AND “SHAME!” COMING FROM THE COALITION AND PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK HIMSELF ARE, HOWEVER, A DELIBERATE EXAGGERATION TYPICAL OF TODAY'S POLISH POLITICS – MICHALSKI FURTHER IN INTERIA: “The shouts of 'treason!' and 'shame!' coming from the coalition and Prime Minister Donald Tusk himself are, however, a deliberate exaggeration typical of today's Polish politics. They have the same value as the earlier 'für Deutschland' directed at Tusk by Kaczyński, Morawiecki, and Ziobro. They increase the emotional fervor of our politics, destroying its substantive resources.”

— IN THE SECOND ROUND, KACZYŃSKI WILL PLAY THE CONFEDERATION CARD EVEN MORE SHARPLY AND EVEN MORE WITHOUT LIMITS – MICHALSKI FURTHER IN INTERIA: “In the second round, Kaczyński will play the Confederation card even more sharply and even more without limits. He will allow Nawrocki to do anything, and Nawrocki will use all anti-European, anti-Western, and anti-Ukrainian threads with full authenticity. Because he is not actually a PiS candidate.”

— THE NEW CONFEDERATION LINE OF LAW AND JUSTICE, INSTEAD OF HELPING NAWROCKI, HELPS MENTZEN, AND JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI HAS NOWHERE TO RETREAT FROM HIS LATEST RADICALIZATION – MICHALSKI'S CONCLUSION IN INTERIA: “The PiS party apparatus, expanded and funded by the state budget for eight years, is dead, which is becoming increasingly apparent in Nawrocki's campaign. Meanwhile, Konfederacja and Mentzen's activity on social media is now greater than that of Trzaskowski and KO, and to an even greater extent than Nawrocki and PiS's activity. This means that the new Confederation line of Law and Justice, instead of helping Nawrocki, helps Mentzen, and Jarosław Kaczyński has nowhere to retreat from his latest radicalization.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-kaczynski-chce-ratowac-nawrockiego-uderzajac-w-unie,nId,21322663

— BIRTHDAYS: Ewa Łętowska, Mariusz Chłopik, Stanisław Stec. SUNDAY: Piotr Zaremba, Hanna Zdanowska, Aleksander Bobko, Ferdynand Rymarz, Ireneusz Niewiarowski.