state of play: 10/24/2025

STATE OF PLAY: Rokita Praises Trzaskowski, Szułdrzyński Notes Braun's Rhetoric May Fuel Tusk's Civic Uprising, Długosz Reports Pro-PiS Think Tanks Publish While Instytut Obywatelski Lies Dormant

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-- PRESIDENT MAINTAINS TRUST OF ALMOST 60% OF RESPONDENTS - LATEST CBOS: https://x.com/CBOS_Info/status/1981632321775366216

-- JAN ROKITA ON MEETING RAFAŁ TRZASKOWSKI: NO ONE WROTE A BETTER BOOK ON EU INSTITUTIONS THAN WHAT I READ IN RAFAŁ'S DOCTORATE:
https://x.com/OficjalneZero/status/1981450989845553497

-- ROKITA ON MORAWIECKI: HE'S A TECHNOCRAT, NOT A PRIME MINISTER OF THE 90s TYPE, HE WAS AN EXCELLENT PRIME MINISTER FOR HIS TIME:
https://x.com/OficjalneZero/status/1981446881902309380

-- FULL INTERVIEW WITH ROKITA BY MAZUREK ON KANAŁ ZERO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Gkzyo31sM

-- KACZYŃSKI INVITES TO PROGRAM CONGRESS: WHILE SOME ARE OCCUPIED WITH THEMSELVES, WORKING AT ONLY 31%, WE ARE MOVING AT FULL SPEED - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- IT HAS NOT BEEN MANAGED FOR 2 YEARS. MEANWHILE, INSTYTUT SOBIESKIEGO - A THINK TANK ASSOCIATED WITH PiS - PUBLISHES REPORTS, PREPARES ANALYSES AND SOLUTIONS THAT CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS - DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ IN Onet: “We went to the Instytut Obywatelski website to check if there was more information about what KO is preparing for the weekend. But the Institute has apparently ceased to operate after the 2023 elections, as the latest information on the site is from this year. Then nothing happened there. The last head of the Institute went to work in local government over a year ago, and no one has managed it since. Meanwhile, Instytut Sobieskiego – a think tank associated with PiS – publishes reports, prepares analyses, and solutions that can be transformed into government programs.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/konwencja-ko-klecona-na-ostatnia-chwile-chcieli-dociazyc-trzaskowskiego/jk06b1f,452ad802

-- PiS IS BEGINNING ITS SEARCH FOR TOPICS AND EMOTIONS THAT WILL BE POLITICALLY VIABLE IN 2027 - WITOLD GŁOWACKI IN OKO.PRESS: “One must admit that PiS has undertaken this search with considerable scope, comparable to the scale of the party's mobilization before the 2015 elections, which resulted in its seizure of power for the next 8 years. The congress is to be the official prelude to this process.”

-- FUEL FOR THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM - GŁOWACKI CONTINUES IN OKO: “The specialist panels serve a different role than the main congress sessions. This is a space for a total of several hundred people from the entire vast PiS ecosystem. This includes not only party members but also representatives of think tanks, associations, foundations, and media living in greater or lesser symbiosis with PiS. We will meet beneficiaries of state subsidy programs from the PiS government period concerning virtually all possible areas of life. There will be a panel on 'conservative feminism', a panel on forestry, one on the postal market, one on former voivodeship cities, and one on the future of Warsaw.”
https://oko.press/kaczynski-chce-znalezc-nowe-polityczne-zloto-wszystko-zacznie-sie-w-sobote

-- ACCORDING TO KAMIL DZUBKA IN Onet, TUSK FEARS POLSKA 2050 LEAVING THE COALITION BEFORE THE ELECTIONS: “However, for Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz to receive a government promotion, Donald Tusk's green light is necessary. And he is very reluctant to appoint her as Deputy Prime Minister. - I witnessed coalition meetings and can say with full conviction that she affects Tusk very negatively. It is evident that she irritates him. This cooperation is very difficult - one of the ministers tells us. However, the problem is more serious. From our conversations in the ruling camp, there is a fear in the Prime Minister's entourage that the new deputy prime minister, a few months before the next elections, will want to lead to her party leaving the coalition. This would be to gain political breathing room. Polska 2050 would only support some government projects. This would allow the party to gain freshness before the 2027 elections and have a chance to cross the electoral threshold.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/donald-tusk-zwleka-ze-zmianami-w-rzadzie-w-grze-sensacyjny-wariant/27w38c5,79cfc278

-- PLATFORMA IS STARTING TO CLEARLY DIVERGE FROM ITS BOURGEOIS ELECTORATE ON SOME ISSUES. AND BY ABOLISHING TERM LIMITS, IT MAY SHOOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT LIKE WITH ALCOHOL IN THE CAPITAL - JAKUB MAJMUREK IN NEWSWEEK: “If such a decision is indeed made, KO may wake up to a similar crisis as the one after the discussion on restricting the night sale of alcohol in Warsaw. The ban on term limits is one of those issues where the interests of local government officials do not necessarily align with the interests of local communities. Associations of local government officials have been protesting against the limit for a long time, but there are no particular protests from urban movements or organizations representing local communities.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/dwukadencyjnosc-tym-ko-moze-sobie-strzelic-w-stope-jak-prohibicja-w-warszawie/llxm1b0,452ad802

-- PRIME MINISTER TUSK IS GAINING IN CONFRONTATIONS, AND POLLS SHOW THAT A JOINT LIST OF KO, LEWICA, PSL, AND POLSKA 2050 MAY BRING SUCCESS. BUT SUCCESS REQUIRES UNITY, RESPECT, AND A POSITIVE MESSAGE - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “But this will require treating coalition partners as equals and mutual respect in building a single list. Because if it is born in pain and an atmosphere of perpetual bickering, mutual accusations, and humiliation, voters will not like it.”

-- THE COALITION MAY BENEFIT FROM... GRZEGORZ BRAUN'S GOOD RESULTS. HIS INCREASINGLY RADICAL, ANTI-UKRAINIAN, AND ANTI-SEMITIC RHETORIC MAY HELP GENERATE A CIVIC UPRISING - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI CONTINUES IN RZ: “The coalition may benefit from... Grzegorz Braun's good results. His increasingly radical, anti-Ukrainian, and anti-Semitic rhetoric may help generate a civic uprising. Negative campaigning has its limitations, but reminding people of the pathologies of PiS rule, the institutional crisis, the complete collapse of the judiciary, which were the price for the PiS government demonstrating effectiveness and fulfilling election promises, combined with showing that the return of PiS to power may also have Braun's face, could prove effective. Jarosław Kaczyński recently praised Robert Bąkiewicz, which will only frighten moderate voters. But Kaczyński with Bąkiewicz and Braun is a mix that voters might not like.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43224501-michal-szuldrzynski-trzy-wnioski-dla-koalicji-obywatelskiej-i-donalda-tuska-z-najnowszego-sondazu

-- 20 YEARS AGO, in the second round of the presidential election, Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk, receiving 54.04% of the votes (yesterday: 23.10).

-- 29 YEARS AGO, the Sejm of the II term of the Republic of Poland dismissed proceedings regarding the constitutional and criminal responsibility of individuals associated with the introduction and implementation of martial law.

-- SUPER EXPRESS CELEBRATES ITS 34TH BIRTHDAY.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Józef Lassota, Mira Suchodolska.
 


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