Today's State of Play

STATE OF PLAY: Bartkiewicz: Tusk Lacks Agency Even with a Low Bar; Naszkowska: PSL Seeks a Ride to Parliament; Stanowski: Trzaskowski is PO's Clear Biggest Asset

-- MONDAY'S POLITICAL AGENDA: TUSK AND ZELENSKY AT WARSAW SECURITY FORUM, KACZYŃSKI ON TOUR, ATTEMPT TO INTERROGATE ZIOBRO BY INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION, MORAWIECKI IN CHEŁM, CHAT WITH GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON - 300LIVE: 
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- SEJM MARSHAL SZYMON HOŁOWNIA IS VYING FOR THE POSITION OF UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - ESTABLISHED BY ONET. HE IS TO TAKE UP THE NEW POST AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ IN ONET: “No Pole has held such a high position in the UN, which works in Hołownia’s favor. As we have established, the Marshal has already involved the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in promoting his candidacy. According to our sources, Hołownia can also count on the President’s support. Since the presidential elections, Hołownia has been striving to build good relations with Karol Nawrocki and his patron, Jarosław Kaczyński – despite having previously fiercely attacked them.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/szymon-holownia-chce-odejsc-z-polityki-znamy-jego-plany/h9jj1nn,79cfc278

-- HOŁOWNIA’S VOTE CONTRIBUTED TO DONALD TUSK BEING A HELPLESS PRIME MINISTER AND KAROL NAWROCKI BEING AN EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT - ARTUR BARTKIEWICZ IN RZ: “It turns out that it is not President Karol Nawrocki who is helpless, but Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is unable to compel loyalty from his own coalition partners in a prestigious clash with the president. This is truly a low bar when it comes to agency – it’s not about pushing through a controversial law within the coalition, but merely about rejecting a presidential bill that is inconsistent with the government’s vision.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43085361-boguslaw-chrabota-bez-campusow-ko-nie-wzleci

-- TRZASKOWSKI IS DECIDEDLY THE GREATEST ASSET OF THE CIVIC PLATFORM - KRZYSZTOF STANOWSKI: Rafał Trzaskowski is decidedly the Civic Platform’s greatest asset, but the Platform does not know how and does not want to do anything with it. He himself, it seems, also doesn’t want to. The guy gets 10 million votes, and instead of him, lesser or greater unknowns, and even pests (greetings to Mr. Roman), are on the front lines. Absolutely fatal human resource management.
https://x.com/K_Stanowski/status/1971906119971778938

-- WITHOUT CAMPUSES, THE CIVIC COALITION WON’T TAKE OFF - BOGUSŁAW CHRABOTA IN RZ: “Therefore, I would suggest less mockery and partisan skirmishes, and more drawing conclusions from initiatives like Campus. Without the support of an electorate believing in the civic purpose and awakened to it, the Civic Coalition will never defeat an increasingly strong right-wing. Structures are not enough; the spirit of politics matters. And this spirit needs to be awakened. With Trzaskowski, not against all Trzaskowskis in the world.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43085361-boguslaw-chrabota-bez-campusow-ko-nie-wzleci

-- TRZASKOWSKI MOST LIKELY WANTS TO FOLLOW THE SAME PATH AS DONALD TUSK IN 2005 - ARKADIUSZ GRUSZCZYŃSKI IN GW: “Talking about emotions and feelings has great therapeutic significance, after all, over 10 million voters were plunged into deep trauma for many weeks. Trzaskowski, incidentally, declares that he has no intention of withdrawing from politics and most likely wants to follow the same path as Donald Tusk in 2005. The Prime Minister was then the clear favorite for the presidential elections, but lost to Lech Kaczyński. Two years later, he returned, began to govern, and started winning.”
https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,32282604,trzaskowski-po-przegranych-wyborach-bylem-wku-ny-prezydent.html

-- FOR THE 2027 ELECTIONS, THE LUDOWCY ARE LOOKING FOR A RIDE - KRYSTYNA NASZKOWSKA IN GW: “– On our own? You must be joking! Of course, I would like that. But I don’t believe it, and my colleagues don’t either. Just look at how Władek is flustered, trying to find some transport to the next Sejm and not drown us in the process. – says a familiar MP, when asked about the chances of the PSL running independently in the next elections.”

-- KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ’S LEADERSHIP IN THE PSL IS NOT QUESTIONED BY ANYONE, AND HE HAS A RE-ELECTION AS PARTY CHAIRMAN IN HIS POCKET - CLAIMS NASZKOWSKA: “But at the same time, one can get the impression that matters of national defense, to which he devotes all his time, absorb him to such an extent that he does not fully control what is happening within the party, and even within the parliamentary club itself.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,32284946,na-wybory-2027-ludowcy-szukaja-podwozki.html

-- 35 YEARS AGO, Radio Zet (as Radio Gazeta) launched – the second commercial radio station in Poland after RMF FM.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Lech Wałęsa (turns 82), Marek Balicki, Marcin Przeciszewski, Bogusław Wontor.