-- CENCKIEWICZ: SENATE AMENDMENTS ON SAFE? WE ARE PLEASED, BUT WE WANTED 2-3 MORE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. CENCKIEWICZ ON THE PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE: IT SHOULD BE SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE OLD PiS - 300LIVE:
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- "GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, THEY'LL DO EVERYTHING FOR YOU THERE." THIS IS HOW OUTPATIENT CLINICS HANDLE LIMITS, AND EMERGENCY ROOMS ARE BURSTING AT THE SEAMS - ELŻBIETA GLAPIAK IN ONET: "Mirek had a stroke, but he didn't know it. He went to the hospital on Sunday night. They made him wait, even though he complained of a severe headache. He only got specialist care from the ER to neurology on Tuesday afternoon. The doctor determined permanent brain damage. Could this have been avoided if he had been treated immediately? This is how overcrowded Polish emergency rooms are."
https://www.medonet.pl/biznes-system-i-zdrowie/trendy-w-ochronie-zdrowia,kolejki-na-sor-ach-w-polsce--eksperci-ujawniaja--dlaczego-jest-tak-zle,artykul,22378772.html

-- CZARNEK PROBABLY HAS THE BEST CHANCE, BECAUSE IN RECENT WEEKS, WHILE EVERYONE WAS QUARRELING, HE STOOD ASIDE A BIT. MOREOVER, HE QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THERE WAS NO POINT IN FIGHTING MORAWIECKI - KAMILA BARANOWSKA IN INTERIA QUOTES A PiS POLITICIAN: "- Przemek (Czarnek - editor) probably has the best chance, because in recent weeks, while everyone was quarreling, he stood aside a bit. Moreover, he quickly realized that there was no point in fighting Morawiecki and started talking to him normally. They even met a few times," one PiS politician tells us. "The scouts won't agree to Bocheński, and they might swallow Czarnek somehow if there's no other choice," he points out. "Although they still won't accept anyone other than Morawiecki and will quietly rock the boat. And the party leader is acting rationally; he received polls showing that with Mateusz as the candidate, we'll drop to 25 percent, and that settled his approach," claims a Morawiecki opponent.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-wielka-tajemnica-prezesa-w-pis-zachodza-w-glowe-o-kogo-chodz,nId,22602734

-- AN INTENSIVE MARKETING OPERATION IS UNDERWAY TO – ESPECIALLY AFTER TRZASKOWSKI'S DEFEAT – ONCE AGAIN THROW THE SO-CALLED ELITES, AS DEFINED BY THE RIGHT, OFF BALANCE. PI'S CURRENTLY UNIMPRESSIVE POLL NUMBERS SHOULD NOT BE MISLEADING - MARIUSZ JANICKI IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: "An intensive marketing operation is currently underway to – especially after Trzaskowski's defeat – once again throw the so-called elites, as defined by the right, off balance. PiS's currently unimpressive poll numbers should not be misleading. This attack on the "top," also using the vile Epstein affair, is of a more general nature, serving the entire right-wing, which will then somehow share its influence and come to an agreement. And the other side will again, after some time, ponder how they were too little right-wing and traditional, how they were condescending and underestimated "ordinary people." Breaking this previously repeatable pattern will be key to the current coalition's victory in 2027."

-- NOW ONE CAN READ AGAIN, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WITH SUCH BEHAVIOR FROM THE ELITES, ALMOST EVERYTHING BENEFITS BRAUN AND HIS FORMATION, BOTH ATTACKING HIM AND REMAINING SILENT - MARIUSZ JANICKI CONTINUES IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: "Now one can read again, for example, that with such behavior from the elites, almost everything benefits Braun and his formation, both attacking him and remaining silent; there is practically no way to oppose him, everything strengthens him. So again, "there's something to it," his "popular" success should somehow be acknowledged, something can be learned from it, because the mainstream, as usual, seems to have missed something again. One X user wrote that Braun "denounces elites detached from and not fulfilling the will of the nation, which is why the elites hate him."

-- IN THE EXPANDED INTERPRETATION THAT THE RIGHT WANTS TO IMPOSE, VIRTUALLY ALL 10 MILLION VOTERS FOR TRZASKOWSKI COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS ELITES. THIS IS WHAT THIS NARRATIVE OPERATION IS ABOUT - JANICKI CONTINUES: "But it also showed, and continues to show, the complete distortion and falsification of this concept by the right-wing, which detached it from sociology and infused it with pure politics, where not a rich party apparatchik of PiS was an elite, but an retired teacher protesting in front of the courthouse against Minister Ziobro's reforms was. In the expanded interpretation that the right wants to impose, virtually all 10 million voters of Rafał Trzaskowski from the last presidential election could be classified as elites. This is what this narrative operation is about."

-- NAWROCKI HAD AN ADVANTAGE PRECISELY BECAUSE HE PERFORMED WORSE, MEANING BETTER, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT TODAY'S REVERSED LOGIC IS ABOUT - WRITES THE FIRST DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF TYGODNIK POLITYKA: "It was on the oppositions of "elite versus people," "top" versus "bottom," "people versus the protected class" that Karol Nawrocki won the last presidential election. All of Trzaskowski's attributes worked to his disadvantage: his background, education, knowledge of languages, experience in public office. In each of these categories, Nawrocki had an advantage precisely because he performed worse, meaning better, because that's what today's reversed political logic is about."
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2332471,1,jak-prawica-atakuje-zdeprawowane-elity-ten-chwyt-nadal-jest-skuteczny-trwa-intensywna-operacja.read?src=mt

-- IF TWO MONTHS AGO SOMEONE HAD SAID THAT A THREAT OF A VETO WOULD EMERGE AROUND A SOLUTION LIKE SAFE AND THAT IT WOULD BECOME A POLITICAL TOOL, IT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO ASSUME - MACIEJ BEREK IN A CONVERSATION WITH MICHAŁ KOLANKO IN RZ: "We are talking about about PLN 180 billion for Poland for defense spending. It is a loan instrument, but cheaper than financing it independently by the state. The funds are to serve purposes that, in principle, no one questions. And yet, signals of uncertainty are coming from the president and his associates as to whether the act will be signed. Criticism is heard directly from the opposition. If two months ago someone had said that a threat of a veto would emerge around such a solution and that it would become a political tool, it would probably have been difficult to assume. Therefore, unpredictability is an important factor today – it is difficult to determine in advance what issues a veto might concern."

-- ACTIONS RELATED TO LOCAL CONTENT, I.E., INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR POLISH ENTITIES – PRODUCERS, SUPPLIERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS – TO ACCESS THE FLOW OF PUBLIC FUNDS - BEREK CONTINUES AT KOLANKA IN RZ: "For example, Minister Wojciech Balczun presented actions related to local content as one of his priorities, meaning increasing the chances for Polish entities – producers, suppliers, service providers – to access the flow of public funds with which we acquire goods, services, and implement infrastructure projects. We had a meeting on this matter, which, besides the Minister of State Assets, included the Ministers of Finance and Economy, Infrastructure, National Defense, Internal Affairs and Administration, as well as the President of the Public Procurement Office and the President of the Central Statistical Office, and we discussed the coordinated implementation of solutions realizing this assumption. And it is thanks to working on priorities that we achieve the effect that ministers mutually see the interdependencies between the actions carried out by the offices under their purview."
https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art43834911-maciej-berek-dla-rzeczpospolitej-turboprzyspieszenie-w-rzadzie-oznacza-wybor-projektow-cywilizacyjnych

-- WILL MINISTER PIOTR MALEPSZAK OF THE RAILWAY BE DISMISSED? PI ATTACKS HIM IN PARLIAMENT, AND PSL SCHEMES IN THE MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE - ARKADIUSZ GRUSZCZYŃSKI AND JAROSŁAW OSOWSKI IN GW: "- For the average passenger, they will be indistinguishable. Their quality is still very good. We allocated 0.4% of our rolling stock expenses to them. If the opportunity arises, we will want to buy even more used wagons from Germany," we heard from Janusz Malinowski, as deliveries of rolling stock ordered from Cegielski in Poznań will be significantly delayed. However, PiS has stirred up a hornet's nest over this matter. Its activists spoke of a "museum on wheels."

-- KLIMCZAK WANTS MALEPSZAK AND LASEK TO LEAVE - GW AUTHORS CONTINUE: "Piotr Malepszak is being targeted not only from the opposition benches. "Wyborcza" has learned that activists from the coalition partner PSL have been scheming against him for a long time. Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimczak belongs to this party. We learned from two independent sources that he submitted a request for the dismissal of his deputy. In addition, he wants to remove MP from KO and Deputy Minister Maciej Lasek, the government's plenipotentiary for CPK, who is responsible for aviation, as well as Deputy Minister Przemysław Koperski, recommended by the left. The latter, in turn, oversees, among others, Polish Waters and the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management."
https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,32612089,minister-od-kolei-piotr-malepszak-zostanie-odwolany-pis-atakuje.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Krzysztof Mroziewicz (turning 81), Łukasz Grass, Marcin Cieślak, Wiola Paprocka.