-- LESZCZYNA: I DON'T THINK TUSK HAD ANY PART IN OUR DEFEAT - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/06/06/ -- THE FIRST LADY DOES HER OWN LAUNDRY - MARTA NAWROCKA ON THE COVER OF SE: https://www.egazety.pl/time/e-wydanie-super-express.html -- "WE DON'T SEND ANYTHING TO THE CHANCELLERY BECAUSE WE KNOW TUSK WILL STICK HIS FACE ON IT" - WE HEAR FROM THE GOVERNMENT - AGATA SZCZĘŚNIAK WRITES IN OKO.PRESS: “Tusk governs forcefully, he doesn't know how to compromise and wants to be the face of every success. 'We don't send anything to the Chancellery because we know Tusk will stick his face on it. Each ministry communicates its actions independently, leading to chaos. Everyone plays for themselves because everything is being 'Tuskified'' – we hear from the government.” -- "THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SHOUTED 'FUCK PIS' IN 2020 ARE NOW SHOUTING 'FUCK TUSK'. THEY WOULD VOTE FOR THE DEVIL, JUST NOT FOR TUSK" – WE HEAR - AGATA SZCZĘŚNIAK FURTHER IN OKO.PRESS: “After the elections, Donald Tusk had to confront the significant public animosity directed towards him. 'The same people who shouted 'Fuck PiS' in 2020 are now shouting 'Fuck Tusk'. They would vote for the devil, just not for Tusk,' we hear. My interlocutors from Polska 2050 admit that the hatred for Tusk was effectively fueled by PiS, but PO failed to prevent it. And now it's a PR battle against windmills. 'These elections are a triumph for Kaczyński. He had a better ear for the public.' There's a reluctant admiration in these voices: Kaczyński has produced two presidents and two prime ministers in the last 20 years.” https://oko.press/holownia-na-czele-rebelii-czy-rzad-przetrwa-pozycja-tuska-spadla -- "WHAT IS HE DOING? THAT GUY IS GONE" - A HIGH-RANKING PO POLITICIAN TELLS ONET ABOUT HOŁOWNIA - MAGDALENA GAŁCZYŃSKA: “- What are they doing? What is he up to? Hołownia is undermining and destroying the entire coalition to save his own position. He's still got that TV star syndrome, but that guy is gone – a high-ranking PO politician, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells Onet. Other Platform MPs add that Hołownia and his people, before publicly pointing out the coalition's mistakes, should first reflect on their leader's disastrous election result.” https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/szymon-holownia-krytykuje-rzad-i-po-co-on-robi-tego-chlopa-juz-nie-ma/l3p4d5y,79cfc278 -- FIRST, TO FINISH CONSUMING THE APPETIZERS SO AS TO ENTER THE ELECTIONS WITH A SINGLE LIST AND PO RATINGS CLOSER TO 30-35%. SECONDLY - AFTER THE ELECTIONS, TO RE-ENTER THE ROLE OF THE SOLE CERTIFIED "DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY" - GRZEGORZ SROCZYŃSKI IN GAZETA.PL: “What is currently good for PO (and not for the government or the entire ruling camp)? Firstly, to finish consuming the appetizers so as to enter the elections with a single list and PO ratings closer to 30-35 percent than, say, 27 percent. Secondly – and this is after the elections, whether early or not, we'll see – to re-enter the role of the sole certified 'defenders of democracy'. Don't count on better governance now, as PO will be busy accumulating fat for its opposition days: placing its people in state-owned companies to skim profits, pumping money into foundations and its own local governments, meaning they will do what PiS did before relinquishing power, only without the dire pronouncements from the media-academic camp, because – as we know – in defense of democracy, it's permissible to steal, burn, and rape.” -- PIS'S ARROGANCE, INTRANSIGENCE, AND INABILITY TO COOPERATE WITH ANY PARTNER ON EQUAL TERMS WILL DISRUPT THE RIGHT - SROCZYŃSKI FURTHER IN GAZETA.PL: “PiS's arrogance, intransigence, and inability to cooperate with any partner on equal terms (these traits are also nobly represented by PO) will disrupt the right. It has already begun, Kaczyński showed Mentzen and his voters that they are nobodies. In response to a meeting proposal, he told Mentzen – listen carefully – 'There is, however, a certain proportion related to the size of the club and political experience.' And further to journalists: 'Perhaps this doesn't resonate with you, but I am from a completely different generation, more like your grandparents than your parents. For me, however, this matters.' This statement contains all the honeyed wonders that the younger generation experiences from the older generation, everything that drives voters to Konfederacja and genuinely irritates them: paternalism, 'we – the experienced ones, you – the scoundrels, know your place,' 'Kaziu, I'm the boss, so don't philosophize,' etc., etc.” -- "TUSK IS ALREADY TOO SHORT TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE RIGHT. HE'LL MANAGE, HE'LL GO SOMEWHERE TO EUROPE, OR TO POSITIONS IN NATO, AND HE'LL COMFORTABLY SETTLE HIS PARTY CLUB IN PARLIAMENT IN A SURVIVAL MODE" – SROCZYŃSKI AGAIN: “Meanwhile, the liberal camp should understand a fairly simple thing: Tusk is already too short to protect you from the right. He'll manage, he'll go somewhere to Europe, or to positions in NATO, and he'll comfortably settle his party club in parliament in a survival mode, while you'll be eating the pâté of Konfederacja's and PiS's autocratic rule under Nawrocki's patronage. If PO (with its appetizers in its digestive system) remains the only non-right-wing force – if 'non-right-wing' means only Tusk – then the right will seize power in 2027 with a constitutional majority of 307 seats in the Sejm.” -- "TUSK WON'T DELIVER THIS FOR YOU; FOR THAT, ON THE NON-PIS SIDE, SOMETHING IS NEEDED THAT ISN'T PLATFORM" - SROCZYŃSKI'S CONCLUSION IN GAZETA.PL: “Only a credible anti-establishment party on the left can push this scenario away and not surrender everything to the right, including the right to tamper with the Constitution (as they will likely have the government anyway). Tusk won't deliver this for you; for that, on the non-PiS side, something is needed that isn't Platform. Therefore, if someone tries to herd you voters into one pen, babbling about a 'democratic camp' that should now show unity because 'Poland is turning brown' – remember that this is a cynical game for PO's benefit and nothing more. They are paid to say and write that to you, and you don't have to be blackmailed.” https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,31998956,lepiej-sie-nie-szarpac-po-chce-juz-wracac-do-opozycji-komentarz.html -- ELECTIONS ARE WON ON KANAŁ ZERO. AND TRZASKOWSKI SENT GIERTYCH THERE - JAKUB MAJMUREK IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: “Alongside Nawrocki, Mentzen, and Braun, the biggest winner of these elections is Krzysztof Stanowski and his Kanał Zero, which has become one of the most important media channels of this campaign. Underestimating and misunderstanding its specificity was one of many mistakes made by the Warsaw presidential candidate's campaign team, leading to Karol Nawrocki ultimately securing 370,000 more votes and his presidency. Let's recall that when they could have aired anything, Trzaskowski's team aired a video of Roman Giertych explaining why, as a Catholic, he would not vote for Nawrocki.” -- MENTZEN BUILT HIS OWN MEDIA ECOSYSTEM BASED ON YOUTUBE AND SOCIAL MEDIA - MAJMUREK FURTHER: “However, this did not prevent Mentzen from garnering almost 15% and nearly three million votes. He built his own media ecosystem based on YouTube and social media, which allowed him to almost completely disregard what traditional media said about him. His voters do not get their information from them anyway, and even if they come across it, they do not necessarily believe it.” -- IF THE LIBERAL-LEFT SIDE DOES NOT START MOVING MORE EFFECTIVELY IN THIS NEW MEDIA LANDSCAPE, IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM - MAJMUREK'S CONCLUSION: “If Kanał Zero does not lose viewers after its campaign-fueled growth by the next election, the right will have a very favorable media landscape in 2027. On one hand, weakening traditional media, perceived by a significant portion of the electorate as biased and partisan, on the other, media like Republika, catering to the older and most identity-focused right-wing electorate, and thirdly, Kanał Zero for young, moderately anti-system men, plus politicians with their own communication channels, like Mentzen. If the liberal-left side does not start navigating this new media landscape more effectively, it will be very difficult for them.” https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/zlekcewazenie-i-niezrozumienie-specyfiki-kanalu-zero-wsrod-przyczyn-porazki-trzaskowskiego/ -- SYMPTOMATIC OF THE MENTALITY PREVAILING IN THE CENTER OF THE POLISH POLITICAL SCENE. IT CONSISTS OF A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF ARROGANCE OF POWER WITH A DESTRUCTIVE LACK OF CURIOSITY ABOUT OPPONENTS - BEN STANLEY IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “Rafał Trzaskowski's unwavering confidence in victory on Sunday evening is symptomatic of the mentality prevailing in the center of the Polish political scene. It consists of a unique combination of arrogance of power with a destructive lack of curiosity about opponents. Leading members of Trzaskowski's party still seem to be guided by the conviction that they possess a monopoly on correctness and the competence to govern, and a result that prevents this is a pathological deviation from the norm.” -- PO HAS FOUND ITSELF IN A SITUATION WHERE NOT LONG AGO PIŚ WAS – BETWEEN THE CONVICTION OF ITS OWN RIGHT TO GOVERN AND THE REALITY OF RAPIDLY DECLINING ATTRACTIVENESS TO PARTNERS - BEN STANLEY FURTHER: “At the same time, PO has found itself in a situation where PiS was not long ago – between the conviction of its own right to govern and the reality of rapidly declining attractiveness to the partners it needs to make it possible. Trzaskowski's narrow defeat shows that theoretically there is still sufficient support for a broad pro-democratic camp, but the disappearance of an eight-point lead in just over a month highlights how fragile it is. In these unfavorable circumstances, PO must urgently take real, lasting steps to build bridges with moderate, pro-democratic partners to find common ground based on mutual compromise and trust. Otherwise, it will be no surprise if in 2027 the ball bounces towards the goal again, and the disoriented goalkeeper is once again humiliated.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/06/03/koalicja-rzadzaca-malzenstwo-z-rozsadku-na-zakrecie/ -- BIRTHDAYS: Tadeusz Cymański, Joanna Staniszkis, Małgorzata Winiarczyk-Kossakowska, Krzysztof Turowski, Tadeusz Arłukowicz.