-- WHAT WILL BE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SEJM AND NAWROCKI? SIWIEC ANNOUNCES "VERY STRONG RESISTANCE" - 300LIVE:
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS LOBBY FOR THE REPEAL OF THE TWO-TERM LIMIT. BUT THERE IS NO MAJORITY IN THE SEJM, AND NO CONCRETE PROPOSALS FROM THE PRESIDENT - TOMASZ NYCZKA IN GW: "- We talked about it, we are indeed divided, but this division runs like in society: those who were in local government do not want the two-term limit, those who were not, support this solution. I support the term limit, and I even think it should appear in other elected positions," explains Ewa Schädler, a member of the Polish 2050 party, to "Wyborcza," adding that she will vote against abolishing the two-term limit. There will also be no discipline in the Left party, where there is a determined group of opponents to abandoning the two-term limit, centered around Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk and former Razem politicians."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32425849,samorzadowcy-lobbuja-za-zniesieniem-dwukadencyjnosci-ale-w.html

-- NO ONE WILL RISK THE COLLAPSE OF THE COALITION. POLAND 2050 WILL GET A DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER - ARKADIUSZ GRUSZCZYŃSKI IN GW QUOTES A LEFT PARTY MP: "A Left party MP: - No one will risk the collapse of the coalition. Poland 2050 will get a Deputy Prime Minister, because Donald Tusk will not start a total war in the government for the price of one position. Besides, people are not really interested in how many Deputy Prime Ministers there are, who has what position; in reality, only one person is interested in this, namely Pełczyńska-Nałęcz."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,32429748,pelczynska-nalecz-czeka-od-miesiaca-na-spotkanie-z-tuskiem.html

-- HERE IS THE BLACKEST SCENARIO FOR KACZYŃSKI: YOUNG, EDUCATED, FROM BIG CITIES, WHO LOOK RIGHT - AGNIESZKA KUBLIK IN GW: "PiS is already weakening, and the Confederation is gaining from this. Will Kaczyński manage to break through to the young, educated, from big cities, who look right? Probably not. Karol Nawrocki – yes. He has already declared himself the leader of the right-wing camp and was taking photos with young nationalists at the Independence March, where Polexit slogans were proudly displayed."
https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,32426051,wina-tuska-juz-kaczynskiemu-nie-smakuja.html

-- HOW JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI NURTURED GRZEGORZ BRAUN - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: "By introducing radical, anti-European, anti-Western, and anti-Ukrainian narratives into the political mainstream, PiS's support is not growing. But it creates space for politicians who are not at all restrained in their radicalism – like Grzegorz Braun, for example. In this sense, support for Braun's party may be a result of PiS's pedagogy. And Poland has found itself today in a situation where an openly antisemitic, radically anti-Ukrainian, and directly pro-Russian party has permanently settled into our political landscape. This is already a much more serious problem, as it has geopolitical repercussions."
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43411901-michal-szuldrzynski-jak-jaroslaw-kaczynski-grzegorza-brauna-wyhodowal

-- EUROPE PLUNGES INTO RIGHT-WING ABYSS. CIVIC COALITION IN EP VOTES WITH PIS AND CONFEDERATION - PAULINA PACUŁA IN GW: "The European People's Party (including Civic Coalition and PSL) along with the far-right (including PiS and Confederation) are voting against the Green Deal, are afraid of the word 'gender', and are indulging business. Is this the end of the centrist coalition that was supposed to protect Europe from right-wing extremism?

-- LEGITIMIZATION OF ANTI-EUROPEAN NARRATIVES BY THE RPP - PACUŁA FURTHER IN OKO: "Claims about the European Commission allegedly exceeding its powers, and thus violating treaties, are the main components of the Eurosceptic narrative of the far-right and national conservatives. Voting on such a report together with anti-European, anti-democratic parties by the oldest political group in Europe, the EPP, is legitimizing anti-European narratives. These are most often used by parties that are not so much fighting for the rule of law within the EU framework as they want to weaken the Union and trust in its institutions. Almost all MEPs from the Civic Coalition, PSL, PiS, and Confederation supported the report, which fits into the narrative and image strategy of the far-right."

-- THIS IS THE NORMALIZATION OF THE FAR-RIGHT AND NATIONAL CONSERVATIVES ON A GRAND SCALE. EKR, PATRIOTS, AND ESN ARE USING THIS FOR PROPAGANDA OF SUCCESS - PACUŁA FURTHER IN OKO: "All these examples indicate that, contrary to post-election declarations, including those by EPP leader Manfred Weber, Christian Democrats are ready to move away from the traditional centrist alliance of Christian democratic, social democratic, and liberal forces in the EP, in favor of cooperation with the far-right. We wrote about the possibility of this happening almost immediately after the European elections in June 2024. This is the normalization of the far-right and national conservatives on a grand scale. EKR, Patriots, and ESN are using this to pursue propaganda of success. 'The sanitary cordon has fallen,' said Mary Khan-Hohloch, an MEP from Alternative for Germany, to Politico after the vote on the deregulation package concerning sustainable development principles. PiS is also happy about this turn of events."

-- I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED BY AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE CIVIC COALITION AND THE CONFEDERATION AFTER THE NEXT ELECTIONS - SCHEURING-WIELGUS QUOTED BY PACUŁA IN OKO: "I will not be surprised by an alliance between the Civic Coalition and the Confederation after the next elections," says Scheuring-Wielgus about the situation in Poland to OKO.press. "What we are seeing in the EP is just the warm-up," she believes.
https://oko.press/parlament-europejski-ue-sojusz-polityczny

-- BIRTHDAYS: Agnieszka Holland, Wiesław Walendziak.