state of play: 06/25/2025

THE STATE OF PLAY: Bosak Monopolizes Radical Immigration Narrative, Riding the Wave of the Independence March and Building Capital on Government Discontent

Łukasz Mężyk

-- TUESDAY WAS A DAY OF CULMINATION IN THE SHIFTING LANGUAGE OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT LEADER REGARDING IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT TO POLISH TERRITORY BY GERMAN SERVICES. -- ON BOGDAN RYMANOWSKI'S SHOW ON POLSAT, KRZYSZTOF BOSAK INTENSIFIED THE TONE FROM HIS MORNING TWEET, WHERE HE CALLED THE COALITION'S STANCE "DEBASEMENT." : "If I wrote everything I think about this, I would have to use profanity." "Calculated lie and juggling of statistics." Bosak responds to Szłapka on migrants Bosak: If I were in charge of the government, I would immediately close the border with Germany https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/06/24/#post-793641 -- ŁUKASZ WARZECHA CALLED RYMANOWSKI'S INTERVIEW WITH BOSAK "PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INTERVIEWS RECENTLY.": If this situation is not stopped and we do not halt the Germans' actions, in a few months, we will be in a different reality. https://x.com/lkwarzecha/status/1937181322553 -- ON RADIO WNET ON MONDAY, BOSAK SAID: On the one hand, they claim to have suspended the right to asylum (at the border), and on the other hand, we have Eurostat data indicating that over 1,000 asylum applications are processed monthly within Poland. Poles' security level will decrease, and we need to know who is to blame for this. Allowing immigration that is culturally and civilizationally foreign into Poland is part of the current government's policy. This must be exposed, and the government must be forced to be transparent. https://x.com/krzysztofbosak/status/1937143818651910319 -- A FEW DAYS AGO, BOSAK APPEALD NOT TO VOTE FOR THE PARTIES OF THE CURRENT COALITION: I appeal for prudence and to never again vote for the parties of the current ruling coalition. This is happening with their support or passive acceptance. -- IN OUR OPINION: Bosak is capitalizing on PiS's post-election euphoria and their countering of Roman Giertych to become the "owner" of the radical narrative on immigration from Germany. He likely aims for this year's Independence March to be a record-breaking event and a culmination point of dissatisfaction with the government's policies. *** -- MAREK TEJCHMAN FROM DGP AND RMF: All in all, a nice idea to have prosecutors count votes. Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro will like it after 2027. https://x.com/mtejchman/status/1937605994214781075 -- SŁAWOSZ UZNAŃSKI-WIŚNIEWSKI FLEW INTO SPACE AS THE SECOND POLE IN HISTORY - MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI IN OKO.PRESS: "With Sławosz's flight, the Polish space sector is consolidating. His flight is the result of an increased contribution to the European Space Agency. This contribution returns to Polish companies in the form of grants and projects, so this is a very important moment for the Polish Space Sector, and that's how it should be discussed," explained Maciej Myśliwiec, a space industry expert and founder of Space Agency, in an interview with Marcel Wandas on OKO.press. https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/slawosz-uznanski-wisniewski-polecial-w-kosmos -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE EDITORIAL LOGIC THAT ASSUMES THAT DURING THE LAUNCH OF A ROCKET WITH A POLISH ASTRONAUT, THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE SHOWN. SIMPLY NO - JAKUB KRUPA ON X: https://x.com/JakubKrupa/status/1937761924017447107 -- CIVIC PLATFORM REMINDS ME OF THE POLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM. THE LEADER IS IN DECLINE, THERE IS WHISPHERING OF DISSATISFACTION WITHIN THE PARTY, AND SUCCESSORS ARE NOT VISIBLE. ARE THE RECENT ELECTIONS THE FIRST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF A GREAT PARTY? - PIOTR ŚMIŁOWICZ IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY. -- THE COALITION, THROUGH ITS MOVES, COULD HAVE SIMULTANEOUSLY CALMED AND DEMOBILIZED RIGHT-WING VOTERS, AND PERHAPS EVEN GAINED SOME OF THEM. HOWEVER, SINCE RETURNING TO POLAND, TUSK HAS BECOME A PRISONER OF THE MOST RADICAL ANTI-PiS ELECTORATE - ŚMIŁOWICZ CONTINUES: "Looking back, it's clear that the coalition could have achieved greater success if it had fulfilled its promises and pursued a consistent information policy. Through its actions, it could have simultaneously calmed and demobilized right-wing voters, and perhaps even gained some of them. However, since returning to Poland, Tusk has become a prisoner of the most radical anti-PiS electorate, despite repeated declarations that he would not politically control the accountability process. He has closed himself off from those with different views to such an extent that he succumbed to the radicals and ordered Trzaskowski to cancel the so-called 'symetrists' debate' at Campus Polska Przyszłości in 2023, as its course could have been unfavorable to the main party message." -- SIKORSKI, AS CAN BE HEARD IN PO, HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE GAME FOR POWER AND IS BUILDING HIS FACTION - ŚMIŁOWICZ CONTINUES IN TP: "Sikorski, as can be heard in PO, has already begun the game for power and is building his faction. He may have decided that only as a leader does he have a chance to finally obtain the coveted presidential nomination. As for Giertych, he is also a player with great potential, playing on Sikorski's team. The same goes for another politician – Michał Kamiński, currently in PSL. They form a 'great trio' of friends who have been loyally supporting each other for years. Kamiński's recent statements suggesting the need for Tusk to step down as prime minister were not accidental." -- A FORWARD ESCAPE, IN THE FORM OF REACHING AN AGREEMENT TODAY ON JOINT LISTS WITH THE GROUPS FORMING THE COALITION - ŚMIŁOWICZ AGAIN IN TP: "Yet another scenario could be a forward escape, in the form of reaching an agreement today on joint lists with the groups forming the October 15th coalition. To avoid this being perceived as 'eating appetizers,' Tusk could cede the prime minister's seat to, for example, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. This would mean that for the sake of saving the ruling camp, he must step back from leadership. Perhaps such a move would also ease the conflict with the president, allowing at least some laws to come into effect." https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/dokad-zmierza-donald-tusk-czy-uratuje-ko-przed-rozpadem-i-utrata-wladzy-191053 -- IF TUSK GAVE THE PRIME MINISTER'S POST TO TRZASKOWSKI, HE COULD ESCAPE FORWARD FROM THIS TREACHY GROUND - PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ IN INTERIA: "The right is preparing in full swing for the president's inauguration, and Tusk must decide what to do with the boat he is personally rocking. Is he capable of attempting a forward escape, for example, by handing over the position of prime minister to Trzaskowski – a politician with 10 million post-election trust? He could then use the old slogan for a new beginning: 'Your president, our prime minister.'" https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-grzaski-grunt,nId,21843116 -- WITHOUT RECLAIMING THE COUNTRYSIDE, THE "URBAN CONSERVATISM" OF PSL MAKES THE LUDOWCY A PARTY WITHOUT AN ELECTORATE, WITHOUT AN AUDIENCE, SUSPENDED IN A VOID - CEZARY MICHALSKI IN INTERIA: "When PiS stopped governing, it also lost the tools to destroy PSL. However, no subsequent elections (European, local, presidential) and no polls confirm that PSL has managed to reclaim even a piece of the countryside. Without reclaiming the countryside, PSL's 'urban conservatism' makes the Ludowcy a party without an electorate, without an audience, suspended in a void. Getting rid of Hołownia will not help here at all, because Hołownia was neither an asset nor a burden in the countryside." -- TUSK MAY BENEFIT FROM THE COLLAPSE OF TRZECIA DROGA, BUT HE MIGHT BREAK HIS TEETH ON IT - MICHALSKI CONTINUES IN INTERIA: "Tusk may benefit from the collapse of Trzecia Droga, but he might break his teeth on it. He may hope that in two years he will convince Hołownia's people and the PSL members to form a single list (which he will arrange), and this single list will overtake PiS and Konfederacja, reducing their lead over the 'liberal Poland camp' or even eliminating that lead." -- PERHAPS THEY WILL HAVE TWO YEARS TO FIND AN ANSWER, OR PERHAPS ONLY A FEW MONTHS - MICHALSKI AGAIN: "For now, it is not apparent that Donald Tusk and his coalition partners have an answer to Trzaskowski's loss to Nawrocki. Perhaps they will have two years to find it, or perhaps only a few months." https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-czy-omerta-jest-jedynym-kapitalem-spolecznym-w-polsce,nId,21842856 -- 10 YEARS AGO, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska was elected Marshal of the Sejm. -- BIRTHDAYS: Wojciech Mojzesowicz, Róża Szułdrzyńska, Janina Sonik, Andrzej Aumiller, Piotr Tomański.

Łukasz Mężyk