— THE BEST MEME FROM THE DEBATE: Is this a real scenario for August…?
https://x.com/WarNewsPL1/status/1910989798946267592

— PROFESSOR SENYSZYN IS OBVIOUSLY ELECTORAL FOLKLORE. BUT HOW CHARMING – PATRYK SŁOWIK IN WP: “Professor Senyszyn is obviously electoral folklore. But how charming. And what’s more – something that cannot be said about many of her seemingly more serious competitors – she is a type of politician increasingly rarely seen in Poland, who says what she thinks, not what is politically beneficial at the moment.”

— HOŁOWNIA GRABBED IT ALL HIMSELF – SŁOWIK CONTINUES IN WP: “During the second debate (the one organized by Trzaskowski), I wrote that Szymon Hołownia performed much better in the discussion than both Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki. I added that he was having a very good day and received an incredible gift. To which someone pointed out to me that it’s hard to call it a gift: Hołownia, after all, clawed it all for himself.”

— THIS IS A COMPLETE COMPROMISE OF THE SO-CALLED PUBLIC TELEVISION – PATRYK SŁOWIK FURTHER IN WP: “This is a complete compromise of the so-called public television. Coalition partners of Civic Coalition publicly accused the television of favoring one candidate. Just a few days ago, we heard that three televisions – TVP, TVN, and Polsat – would organize a debate between Trzaskowski and Nawrocki. However, TVP realized that they could not organize such a debate because they should treat all presidential candidates equally.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/dzien-debat-oceniamy-kto-wygral-a-kto-przegral-opinia-7145213160188864a

— STANOWSKI TODAY AT GRZEGORZ BRAUN’S CONVENTION DURING THE SINGING OF BOGURODZICA: https://x.com/K_Stanowski/status/1911002808528052706
— WHAT'S MORE, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE BETTER PRE-ELECTION DEBATES ONE COULD WATCH IN RECENT YEARS – WITOLD GŁOWACKI IN OKO.PRESS: “When the broadcast began, it turned out that the debate, improvised under rapidly changing conditions, ultimately did not differ significantly from the viewer's perspective from other similar events known from previous campaigns. The three moderators from three television stations fully controlled its course, the participants generally stayed within the time limits, and there were no brawls. What's more, it might have been one of the better pre-election debates one could watch in recent years.”

— IT IS A CERTAIN PARADOX THAT THE CANDIDATES WHO PREPARED THE LONGEST FOR THE DEBATE, I.E., THE TWO STRONGEST IN THE POLLS, PERFORMED RELATIVELY WEAKLY IN IT – GŁOWACKI CONTINUES IN OKO.PRESS: “What's more, it's a certain paradox that the candidates who prepared the longest for the debate, meaning the two strongest in the polls, performed relatively weakly. Trzaskowski and Nawrocki did not overwhelm the other participants of the debate – especially Szymon Hołownia and Magdalena Biejat – either with their eloquence or the weight of their arguments.”

— THE QUESTION IS HOW SŁAWOMIR MENTZEN’S ABSENCE WILL AFFECT HIS POSITION RELATIVE TO HOŁOWNIA, WHO IS TRYING TO CATCH UP TO HIM, AND ZANDBERG’S ABSENCE ON HIS INTRA-LEFT RIVALRY WITH BIEJAT – GŁOWACKI FURTHER IN OKO: “Will the debate change the balance of power before the elections, the first round of which is just over a month away? Not necessarily. The fact that the candidates from the two main parties performed rather blandly should not significantly weaken their positions, as they also have the most loyal voter bases. The question is how Sławomir Mentzen’s absence will affect his position relative to Hołownia, who is trying to catch up to him, and how Zandberg’s absence will affect his intra-left rivalry with Magdalena Biejat.”
https://oko.press/debata-jakiej-nie-bylo

— THE DEBATE ORGANIZED BY REPUBLIKA IN KOŃSKIE IS WON BY SZYMON HOŁOWNIA. KRZYSZTOF STANOWSKI IS A JESTER. TRZASKOWSKI AND TVP LOSE – ESTERA FLIEGER IN RZ: “While Nawrocki did not feel more comfortable in the sports hall, Hołownia maintained his leading position, Biejat had her moments, and Stanowski did not take off his jester’s mask – at the same time, he asked the President of Warsaw a difficult question about the day he changed his stance on the crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border. Rafał Trzaskowski, on the other hand, performed surprisingly poorly, as he was confrontational: he lost the battle of nerves.”

— STANOWSKI IS STILL MORE SERIOUS THAN POLISH POLITICS AND PUBLIC MEDIA – ESTERA FLIEGER CONTINUES IN RZ: “The editor-in-chief of Kanał Zero, promising to lower electricity prices by 60 percent and build six nuclear power plants in six months, is still more serious than Polish politics and public media.”
https://www.rp.pl/publicystyka/art42109181-estera-flieger-debate-republiki-w-konskich-wygrywa-szymon-holownia-krzysztof-stanowski-jest-stanczykiem-przegrywaja-trzaskowski-i-tvp

— THAT CAMPAIGN TEAM WILL SURELY MANAGE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY MANAGED THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN EXTRAORDINARILY WELL UNTIL THIS UNFORTUNATE DAY IN KOŃSKIE. THEREFORE, THE MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS HOW WE, THE CITIZENS, WILL COPE WITH SUCH A WEAK DEMOCRACY – MICHAŁ PŁOCIŃSKI IN RZ: “How can one perform so poorly at their own debate? – this question will echo for a long time in Rafał Trzaskowski's campaign headquarters. But that headquarters will surely manage, especially since they managed the election campaign extraordinarily well until this unfortunate day in Końskie. Therefore, the more important question is how we, the citizens, will cope with such a weak democracy, in which presidential debates are organized by the campaign team of the ruling party’s candidate? One could bitterly joke that it was similar under PiS, because after all, the then TVP was the unofficial campaign team for Andrzej Duda, but we really shouldn’t be laughing today.”

— NO ONE WILL DEFEND THE IDEA OF THIS DEBATE – PŁOCIŃSKI CONTINUES IN RZ: “And I really don’t know how the same people can pretend today that everything is fine. And if my colleagues, journalists from free media, whom I truly value, try to defend the participation of Polish Television in this farce, then I really don’t know what to think about it. Because no one will defend the idea of this debate.”
https://www.rp.pl/publicystyka/art42109321-michal-plocinski-rafal-pomyslu-na-te-debate-nie-wybronisz

— THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE WORLDVIEW THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT CAMP IS TRYING TO CONSTRUCT. IT IS A VISION IN WHICH THE RIGHT DOES NOT EXIST, OR EXISTS IN A FRAGMENTARY FORM – PIOTR ZAREMBA IN INTERIA: “There is also a broader context. The resistance of TVP, and consequently of Trzaskowski’s campaign team, to admit two right-wing televisions is a consequence of the worldview that the current government camp is trying to construct. It is a vision in which the right does not exist, or exists in a fragmentary form. This is why, in many places in Poland, the crews of Republika and wPolsce 24 were not allowed into open meetings of the Civic Coalition candidate. Moreover, Donald Tusk already set this standard earlier. Breaking the law, as the first Polish Prime Minister, he ordered the exclusion of journalists unfavorable to him from his own press conferences.”

— THIS IS AN IDEA TO GRANT ONESELF, OR AT LEAST A STRIVING FOR, AN INFORMATIONAL MONOPOLY. ONE’S OWN PEOPLE CAN ONLY TALK TO THEIR OWN, AND IT'S BEST IF THE OTHERS ARE NOT THERE AT ALL – ZAREMBA CONTINUES IN INTERIA: “This is an idea to grant oneself, or at least strive for, an informational monopoly. One’s own people can only talk to their own, and it’s best if the others are not there at all. Moreover, the whole thing is supposed to work only in one direction. The crews of TVN and TVP, after all, come to the press conferences of right-wing politicians, they are admitted there, and their often aggressive questions are answered. Meanwhile, Donald Tusk's 'fighting democracy' foresees an attempt at a kind of delegalization not only of media but also of the electorate, reaching, together with Konfederacja, 40 percent of Poles.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-debata-w-konskich-tak-ale-na-czyich-warunkach,nId,21395167

— POLAND IS RIGHT-WING. POLAND IS SOCIAL – CEZARY MICHALSKI IN INTERIA: “Poland is right-wing. Poland is social. Just like throughout the West, in Poland too, it is the economically and professionally inactive people – pensioners, beneficiaries of various benefits – who choose the government. In such a country, a presidential campaign is taking place. Trzaskowski tries not to provoke the social right, Nawrocki flatters it, only Mentzen tests whether in a country of the social right, a man culturally located on the far right, but at the same time hating 'social welfare,' can govern.”

— THE PRINCIPLE OF TRZASKOWSKI'S CAMPAIGN IS TO "NOT STICK OUT" IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SOCIAL RIGHT. NAWROCKI'S PRINCIPLE IS TO FLATTER THE SOCIAL RIGHT – CEZARY MICHALSKI CONTINUES: “The principle of Trzaskowski's campaign is to 'not stick out' in the country of the social right. Nawrocki's principle is to flatter the social right, without ideas, dull, in the style of late Kaczyński. This has made this entire campaign so barren and boring. Apart from Mentzen's test, his encounter with Nawrocki, or lack thereof, will tell us what is most important about Poland.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-jak-zdobyc-wladze-w-kraju-socjalnej-prawicy,nId,21395136

— BIRTHDAYS: Jarosław Kalinowski, Joanna Mucha, Iwona Sulik, Tomasz Bielecki, Jerzy Slezak, Stanisław Szwed, Wojciech Tochman, Agata Dąmbska. SUNDAY: Róża Thun, Jacek Świderski, Jarosław Gugała, Maciej Knapik, Wojciech Solarz.