Today's State of Play
-- POLITICAL AGENDA FOR TUESDAY: NAWROCKI WITH TUSK, KOSINIAK, AND GLAPIŃSKI; CZARNEK IN IŁAWA; GOVERNMENT ON KPO CHANGES - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live
-- PIS WANTS TO EXPLOIT CLASS TENSIONS THAT BROUGHT KAROL NAWROCKI VICTORY IN 2025 - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “I am prepared to argue that he was not guided by a classic political division, but by a class division. The same division that led to Karol Nawrocki's victory in the last presidential elections. This is precisely why he began his speech with the rhetorical figure of the 'normal Pole.' The most important thing is to contrast the normal Pole with demoralized elites.”
-- IN THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, IT TURNED OUT THAT APPROPRIATELY UTILIZED CLASS DIVISIONS CAN LEAD TO VICTORY - SZUŁDRZYŃSKI FURTHER IN RZ: “In the 2025 presidential elections, it turned out that appropriately utilized class divisions can lead to victory. Therefore, the appeal to patriotism or religion was less an appeal to values and more an emphasis on certain socioeconomic divisions. Interestingly, Czarnek, despite being a law professor himself, seems to fit into playing on such class divisions better than Mateusz Morawiecki.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43933861-michal-szuldrzynski-normalny-polak-kontra-elity-czyli-przemyslawa-czarnka-gra-w-klasy
-- CZARNEK AS PRIME MINISTER MEANS WAR WITH THE EU AND CJEU. AND A FINAL SHOWDOWN WITH COURTS AND MEDIA - MARIUSZ JAŁOSZEWSKI IN OKO.PRESS: “PiS putting forward Przemysław Czarnek as a potential prime minister signals the completion of seizing full control over the state. There will be no free courts, and independent media will be nationalized or destroyed. This will end with the blocking of EU funds, and even a Polexit. These will be radical moves, as PiS harbors a desire for revenge and retribution for the accountability of this party's politicians by the current ruling coalition. And they intend to imprison members of the Tusk government. They will not back down. They will push forward, even at the cost of blocking all EU funds. Because PiS disregards any costs.”https://oko.press/czarnek-na-premiera-to-wojna-z-ue-i-tsue-i-ostateczna-rozprawa-z-sadami-i-mediami
-- CZARNEK WILL FIGHT. BUT IS AN "OZE-SROZE" PRIME MINISTER REALLY WHAT POLES DREAM OF? - MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA PORTAL: “Although his speech was full of another series of catchy bon mots, it was the phrase 'OZE-sroze' that broke through as a symbol to the public. This label is unlikely to help the PiS politician. Neither in terms of image, because a potential future prime minister is expected to have a modicum of seriousness and control over their words.”
-- DEFICIENCIES ARE STILL COVERED BY CZARNEK'S ENERGETIC, OFFENSIVE MEDIA STYLE, UNSEEN IN PIS FOR A LONG TIME. BUT THIS FUEL WON'T LAST LONG - DANIELEWSKI FURTHER: “How many contradictions the new opening in PiS is entangled in and in what a complicated situation Przemysław Czarnek finds himself. Where he was supposed to fight for votes fleeing to rivals on the right, he suffers from serious credibility deficits. His boisterous, blunt style of speech energizes the party base but is off-putting to at least some of the less engaged voters. Meanwhile, as a herald of culture wars, he is unacceptable to the centrist electorate. Today, these deficiencies are still covered by Czarnek's energetic, offensive media style, unseen in PiS for a long time. But this fuel won't last long.”https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2334957,1,notatnik-polityczny-czarnek-bedzie-sie-bil-ale-czy-premier-oze-sroze-to-na-pewno-marzenie-polakow.read?src=mt
-- A POSSIBLE RECALL REFERENDUM IS ON THE RADAR IN BĘDZIN, WHERE THE MAYOR IS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF CZARZASTY - WRITES PRZEMYSŁAW JEDLECKI IN GW: “Łukasz Komoniewski was once the face of the new, young, smiling left. Today, he governs the New Left in Silesia and is trying to retain the mayorship in Będzin. (...) In Będzin, however, the voices of the mayor's opponents are becoming increasingly audible. Among them is his former subordinate and former district board member, Adam Szydłowski, who lost to Komoniewski in the last mayoral race and is now cheering on the group that wants to initiate a referendum on his recall. - People travel more and more, they move around and see that it can be different in other cities. Then they return to their Będzin, where they are simply ashamed of the place they live in, says Szydłowski.”https://sosnowiec.wyborcza.pl/sosnowiec/7,93867,32648512,w-miescie-pozary-a-prezydent-smazy-jajecznice-kim-jest-szef.html
-- WILL THERE BE A REPEAT VOTE IN KO IN LOWER SILESIA? JAROS WILL MAKE A PROPOSAL TO WIELICHOWSKA - MAGDALENA KOZIOŁ IN GW: “- Tusk will help Monika - KO activists from her district are convinced of this. He thanked Monika Wielichowska for the competition and announced: 'I want to propose further cooperation with her in the regional board, because the Civic Coalition needs the cooperation and experience of all its leaders.' He made a similar proposal in 2021 to his then-rival, Wałbrzych Mayor Roman Szełemej, but he did not accept it and did not join the regional council. The deputy marshal was in the regional authorities, but it is unknown if she will want to be now.”
-- WE'VE BECOME A MEME LIKE POLSKA 2050 - KOZIOŁ QUOTES AN ANONYMOUS KO ACTIVIST: “We've become a meme like Polska 2050, which had an electoral serial in episodes - an anonymous KO activist ironically remarks, and has no doubt that what happened on Sunday in Wrocław will provide fodder for the opposition. He was not mistaken - Monika Wielichowska's statement went viral online.”https://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,32648512,glosowanie-zza-kartonu-we-wroclawskiej-ko-stalismy-sie-memem.html
-- THE MINISTRY'S "CLEANER" OF MUSEUMS - ALEKSANDRA CIEŚLIK ON ZERO.PL PORTAL: “Pressure, reputational damage and false accusations, isolation, and finally removal from office – this is how museum directors describe the actions of a key official from the Ministry of Culture. The pattern repeats so often that Zero.pl interlocutors believe that a war between the government and museum staff is almost underway. Who is Piotr Rypson and what is his role? Albert Stankowski, former director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, returns to one point: the feeling that Rypson's actions are systemic, not incidental. - Sometimes I feel like he's destroying everything, I just don't know why. He should be working for the development of the institutions under his supervision, says Florjanowicz.”https://zero.pl/news/piotr-rypson-zarzuty-o-mobbing-nekanie-i-odwolywanie-dyrektorow-muzeow-kulisy-konfliktow-w-ministerstwie-kultury
-- BIRTHDAYS: Anna Karaszewska, Joanna Osińska, Artur Dunin, Adam Abramowicz.
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