state of play: 07/30/2025
THE STATE OF PLAY: Czarzasty on Biejat: 'This Lady' and maintaining a secret channel with Zandberg. Is the Left calculating its exit from the government and aiming for a single list again?
-- EENY, MEENY, MINY, MO, WHOEVER LEAVES THE COALITION FIRST WILL BE... GO!
-- I AM NOT INTERESTED IN WHAT PLANS THIS LADY HAS – Włodzimierz Czarzasty reportedly told one of his coalition partners a few weeks ago. The lady in question was, in this instance, the recent Left's presidential hopeful, Magdalena Biejat.
-- ONE GETS THE IMPRESSION THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO PEOPLE PRACTICING REAL POLITICS ON THE GOVERNMENTAL LEFT: Czarzasty and Anna Maria Żukowska.
-- WHAT ABOUT MAGDALENA BIEJAT? Unknown.
-- “SHIPS BURNED, WE'RE ONLY MOVING FORWARD.” The flagship member of the Council of Ministers and Deputy Prime Minister of the "commandos" government, Krzysztof Gawkowski, hasn't moved forward much. Since the groundbreaking reconstruction, there have been 4 generic tweets that could have been written by AI or anyone, including the reactive, even forced, defense of mObywatel by Janusz Cieszyński – an application that most of Europe can truly envy.
-- TO THE BARRICADES, WORKING PEOPLE, RAISE THE RED BANNER HIGH! THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SOMETIMES CALLS FOR A DIGITAL TAX. However, after Canada immediately – exactly a month ago – withdrew its idea of introducing this tax, following President Trump's warning of a trade war with the USA, it's a pipe dream. At a meeting with Trump in Scotland, the head of the European Commission just reached a preliminary agreement on trade with the USA. It would be rather unimaginable for von der Leyen, in such a tense situation, to risk separatist actions by the Polish government, endangering German automotive, Italian textile, French food industries, and so on. The European Commission itself ostentatiously abandoned the idea of an EU digital tax two weeks ago: https://www.politico.eu/article/victory-eu-donald-trump-meta-tax-digital/
-- THE LEFT HAS THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE. Who is it headed by? What interesting things are happening there? Does anyone recall? 2 tweets about nothing since the reconstruction.
-- AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE IN THIS STATE OF PLAY. Okay, this is the choice of the Poles; we will continue to write.
-- LET'S ASSUME, HOWEVER, THAT AGNIESZKA DZIAMIANOWICZ-BĄK IS A STRONG LINK OF THE LEFT IN THE GOVERNMENT. And let's assume that the bill allowing periods of running a sole proprietorship and working on a mandate contract to be counted towards work experience is a useful project. But has anyone heard of it?
-- LET'S ASSUME THAT THE HOUSING PROGRAM, which the Left is pushing for, barricading its Deputy Minister Tomasz Lewandowski, can have political potential. When you search for "Deputy Minister of Construction," the largest search engine shows two names of deputy ministers in the PiS government. And associated with social housing is – downright hated by his government colleagues – Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, who tirelessly communicates everything she does in government day and night.
-- POLITICALLY, THE LEFT IN ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION SERVES SOLELY THE UNDISTURBED ELECTION OF WŁODZIMIERZ CZARZASTY AS MARSHAL OF THE SEJM. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck – as the old proverb goes. And if it looks like the Left has adopted a "sideways" strategy to ensure Czarzasty's promotion to the second-highest office in the state, then it is likely so.
-- WŁODZIMIERZ CZARZASTY – AS OUR SOURCES TELL US – CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN A SECRET COMMUNICATION CHANNEL WITH ADRIAN ZANDBERG. Despite some minor barbs, Czarzasty is not getting into the confrontational mood with Razem, fueled by PO's Twitter fans.
-- ULTIMATELY, A JOINT LEFT-WING LIST COULD PROBABLY GET 10-12%, BUT RAZEM, FOCUSING ON IDEOLOGICAL PURITY, WILL PROBABLY NOT AGREE TO AN ELECTORAL COALITION WITH A PARTY SEATED IN THIS GOVERNMENT, after which a conservative budget for 2026 can be expected. Especially considering that Marcelina Zawisza is the leading fighter in the Sejm for a dramatic increase in healthcare spending.
-- TO GO WITH RAZEM ON ONE LIST, FOR EXAMPLE, UNDER THE SLOGAN “DAMS AGAINST BRAUN,” THE LEFT WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE THE COALITION – probably a year before the constitutional election deadline. They won't leave under the pretext of the 2026 budget, as it would risk Czarzasty becoming Marshal.
-- CONSIDERING THAT PSL COULD RUN ON JOINT LISTS WITH KO, and such a list would today have a chance of 30-35%, with a united Left achieving again 10-12% and some configuration of PL2050, this coalition would have a chance to retain power after 2027.
-- THE QUESTION REMAINS: WOULD RAZEM ONCE AGAIN LEAVE THE COALITION? AND THE CIRCLE CLOSES ON THE LEFT.
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-- WILL THE PRIME MINISTER RETRACT HIS WORDS THAT THERE IS NO MONEY FOR PERSONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES? - PAULINA NODZYŃSKA IN GW: "The bill on assistance, one of the promises from the coalition agreement, has stalled at the government's work stage because it is too expensive. It would change the lives of nearly 600,000 people who are waiting for it. Prime Minister Donald Tusk told them: 'priority is defense spending.' Now he is starting to retract his words."
-- IF I HAD TO LIVE IN A SOCIAL WELFARE HOME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I'D RATHER DIE - NODZYŃSKA QUOTES ONE OF THE ASSISTANCE PROTESTERS: "If I had to live in a social welfare home for the rest of my life, I would rather die. If the state prefers to send a person with a disability to an institution instead of adopting the personal assistance act, then I don't want to live in such a state."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32136487,ludzie-domagaja-sie-ustawy-o-asystencji-premier-powiedzial.html
-- HOW TUSK (UNINTENTIONALLY?) IS FORMING A COALITION WITH KONFEDERACJA ON PERSONAL ASSISTANCE - AGNIESZKA JĘDRZEJCZYK IN OKO.PRESS: "The KO-Konfederacja coalition is just around the corner. The Prime Minister, perhaps unknowingly, has put us on this path. The first joint vote may take place as early as autumn. And the Prime Minister will lose it, because the Left, Razem, Polska 2050 – together with PiS – will outvote him."
-- THE PRIME MINISTER HAS NOT PROVEN THAT HE REALLY KNOWS WHAT HE IS SAYING - CONTINUES AGNIESZKA JĘDRZEJCZYK IN OKO: "At noon on July 29, the Prime Minister tried to 'defuse the bomb' from Pabianice in a speech before the government session. He used such words – thus remaining in the world of armaments. Modern Polish missiles were even prepared as props for him to boast about. The briefing on what personal assistance is was forgotten. 'We remember the issue of personal assistance. The government draft will be submitted to the Sejm,' the Prime Minister reassured. And he assured that he understood the need for 'social spending,' but linked it to 'budgetary responsibility.' Unfortunately, matters have gone too far for this paternalistic reassurance to help. And the Prime Minister has not proven that he really knows what he is saying."
-- THE FORM OF THE COMMUNICATION ONLY CONFIRMS THAT IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S CIRCLE, THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ANALYZED IN CATEGORIES OF "CARE" AND "GRACE" RATHER THAN HUMAN RIGHTS - CONTINUES JĘDRZCZYK IN OKO: "Berek doesn't know that other sources of funding for assistance can be sought, since defense spending takes priority. And the community of people with disabilities has long proposed: let's raise the excise tax on alcohol in beer. To the level of excise tax on alcohol in other beverages (yes, our state treats alcohol in beer as 'other' alcohol)."
https://oko.press/jak-tusk-niechcacy-robi-koalicje-z-konfederacja-ws-asystencji-osobistej-widze-to-tak
-- THE PIS - KONFEDERACJA WAR IS INTENSIFYING - FOGIEL REMINDS OF MENTZEN'S TWEETS ABOUT LEGAL MIGRATION AND SPEAKS OF A HOODWINKED BRAT. https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/07/30/
-- BIRTHDAYS: Jan Truszczyński, Marek Materek, Patryk Wild.
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