-- MARTA NAWROCKA AT THE POLISH WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM MATCH:
https://x.com/laczynaskobieca/status/1981760990959050906

-- NAWROCKI – A TRUE SUPERSTAR? - PIOTR ZAREMBA IN INTERIA: “When the weekly 'Polityka' considers Karol Nawrocki a Teflon politician, it gives one pause for thought. What could trip him up? I don't see anything like that yet. Anti-PiS commentators are suggesting he should aim for leadership on the right, that he should form his own party. He is clearly too sharp for that, and besides, as president, he doesn't have such opportunities. So, the risk of him breaking or spoiling anything is small. The other side must think of some 'antidote' for him. The best would be a similar figure. But no one like that is visible, and besides, before the presidential elections in almost five years, there will be parliamentary ones. The fear of Janicki and others is therefore justified.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-karol-nawrocki-prawdziwa-supergwiazda,nId,22434548#iwa_source=autor

-- "TAX WILL SETTLE ITSELF"? PiS HAS A NEW IDEA FOR COMPANIES - TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK IN MONEY.PL: “AI Tax, i.e., automatic tax settlement for entrepreneurs, similar to today's e-PIT settlements, which is intended to bring an additional PLN 15 billion to the budget and firms – this is another proposal put forward by PiS on the occasion of the programmatic congress in Katowice.”
https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/podatek-rozliczy-sie-sam-pis-z-nowym-pomyslem-dla-firm-znamy-szczegoly-7214341676067424a.html

-- A 100,000 ZLOTY VOUCHER FOR THE THIRD CHILD? THIS IS HOW PiS WANTS TO WIN ELECTIONS - TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK AND GRZEGORZ OSIECKI IN MONEY: “In the section concerning families, issues such as the progression of the 800+ benefit depending on the number of children and its annual revaluation, an increase in the parental benefit (currently PLN 1,000 for 12 months after childbirth) and maternity benefit for those insured in KRUS to the minimum wage level appear. Bartosz Marczuk, former deputy minister of labor in the PiS government, in turn, proposes a housing voucher of up to PLN 100,000 for the birth of a third child and PLN 40,000 for the first child, in addition to a program of free lunches in primary schools.”
https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/goracy-polityczny-weekend-bon-na-100-tys-zl-nowy-rodzaj-kredytow-ludzie-pis-sypia-pomyslami-7213998484515488a.html

-- THIS IS HOW KACZYŃSKI'S PARTY INTENDS TO CLEANSE THE JUDICIARY AFTER THE ELECTIONS - DOROTA GAJOS-KANIEWSKA IN RZ: “However, there can be no real reform without cleansing the profession of political abuses. Judges who have consciously politicized the judiciary in recent years, fitting into Donald Tusk's project and supporting so-called fighting democracy, cannot count on further privileges. Removing them from the profession without the right to retirement is a necessary step to rebuild citizens' trust in the courts and restore their authority” – as stated in the published text of Woś's speech.”
https://www.rp.pl/sady-i-trybunaly/art43233241-konwencja-pis-tak-partia-kaczynskiego-zamierza-oczyscic-sadownictwo-po-wyborach

-- SATURDAY'S POLITICAL PLAN: A PO-PiS CONVENTION DUEL - 300LIVE: 
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- IN PO, THE SENSE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO TRY STILL SEEMS TO DOMINATE. BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MEDIA; PiS, ACCORDING TO NAPOLEON'S MAXIM, KO IS NOT OVERWORKING ITSELF - LESZEK JAŻDŻEWSKI IN INTERIA: “And the party and its activists, regardless of their personal preferences, profiles, and sympathies, have a defined direction of attack. 'March separately, strike together' – as in Napoleon's famous maxim. Meanwhile, in PO, the sense that they don't have to try still seems to dominate. Because they have the media. Because they have become accustomed to being the party in power. Because PiS is crazy and archaic. And if necessary, Tusk will sort it out and lead them to victory. Well, no. 'That's gone, that mood, that ease,' as Rysiek Riedel from Dżem used to sing. Now the lazy general mobilization of PO faces the disciplined PiS ranks and gets beaten.”

-- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HASTILY WRITTEN HUNDRED PLATFORMA OBYWATELSKA POSTULATES AND THE IMPROVISED UNIFICATION CONGRESS IS STRIKING. IN TERMS OF THE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THE CHAIRMAN OF PiS TREATS HIS OWN PARTY'S PROGRAM, HE IS A RELIC OF THE PREVIOUS ERA - JAŻDŻEWSKI CONTINUES: “Things like a major programmatic event are not done hastily. It's painstaking, months-long work. The difference between the hastily written hundred postulates of Platforma Obywatelska and the improvised unification congress is striking. Just a few days ago, no one here knew where and when they were supposed to merge. Let's hope they at least know with whom. In terms of the seriousness with which the chairman of PiS treats his own party's program, he is a relic of a previous era. In the era of post-politics, no one has time to read program booklets. Not even journalists, who know best how lightly the authors themselves treat the program.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-weekendowa-bitwa-na-konwencje-pis-zgodnie-z-maksyma-napoleon,nId,22434835#

-- STARMER'S NEXT ELECTORAL CATASTROPHE SHOULD SCARE EUROPEAN CENTRISTS - POLITICO EUROPE: “The centrist Labour Party's century-long rule was shattered Friday in a Senedd by-election in Wales. Labour's votes in its oldest region shifted to two rivals: the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru on the left (47.4%) and Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK on the right (36%). Just 11% support for Labour is concerning for strategists ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections, and the 2029 Westminster general election. Labour knows the strength of ANTI-GOVERNMENT sentiment in the UK, as it ran on a single word in the 2024 general election campaign: “change.” That same word turned against the Labour establishment in Wales. The result suggests there are no safe havens where parties can rely on historic support, and parties that have been on the fringes until recently (Plaid and Reform) can achieve great success.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/5-reasons-uk-labour-keir-starmer-new-election-disaster-should-spook-europes-centrists-plaid-cymru-reform/

-- THE GOVERNMENT IS HITCHING ITSELF TO THE CZECHS' SUCCESS - ŁUKASZ ROGOJSZ IN INTERIA: “Several hours of negotiations and threats to break up the EU summit yielded results. Opponents of ETS2, the new system of fees for carbon dioxide emissions, managed to defend the clause regarding the "revision" of this mechanism. The Polish government calls it its success, but in reality, it is more hitching itself to the Czechs' success. Meanwhile, the threat of colossal increases in energy bills still hangs over millions of Polish households.”

-- A LITER OF GASOLINE COULD BECOME 46 GROSZY MORE EXPENSIVE, A MEGAWATT-HOUR OF GAS UP TO 90 ZŁ, AND A TON OF COAL ALMOST 400 ZŁ MORE EXPENSIVE - ROGOJSZ CONTINUES IN INTERIA: “And we are talking about truly painful price increases. A liter of gasoline could become up to 46 groszy more expensive, a megawatt-hour of gas up to 90 zł, and a ton of coal up to nearly 400 zł more expensive. An increase in energy raw material prices means higher costs for transport, and this means higher prices for food, everyday goods, and services as well. However, households that heat their apartments and houses with gas, coal, or heating oil will bear the greatest costs.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-superpodatek-wciaz-wisi-nad-polakami-rzad-podpina-sie-pod-su,nId,22435083

-- BIRTHDAYS: Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Romuald Szeremietiew, Stanisław Kalemba, Maria Naimska, Małgorzata Niemczyk. SUNDAY: Janusz Palikot (61), Danuta Waniek (79), Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz (55).