Today's State of Play
-- THE PRIME MINISTER CURRENTLY HAS NO PLANS FOR A CABINET RESHUFFLE - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live
-- KAROLINA OPOLSKA'S BOOK WITHDRAWN FROM SALE. AI-GENERATED FOOTNOTES - ONET: "Harde Publishing, in a statement sent to Wirtualnemedia.pl, announced the withdrawal of Karolina Opolska's book 'Conspiracy Theory, or the True History of the World' from sale. The decision was made after the journalist was accused of using AI to generate some of the sources. Opolska herself also refuted the accusations, assuring that she did not use AI while writing the book. In November last year, the journalist also announced on social media that a publisher's errata would soon be released to clarify any inaccuracies."
https://www.onet.pl/kultura/onetkultura/ksiazka-karoliny-opolskiej-znika-z-polek-wydawnictwo-podjelo-decyzje-po-zarzutach-o/x1kj1zt,681c1dfa
-- THE CASE OF ANDRZEJ POCZOBUT EXPOSES THE HELPLESSNESS OF POLISH DIPLOMACY - RUSŁAN SZOSZYN IN RZ: "The matter is political, complex, ambiguous, and – unfortunately – exposes the limited capabilities of our diplomacy, regardless of who governs in Warsaw. Andrzej Poczobut is a sincere and brave man, an honest journalist, and one of the last guardians of Polishness beyond our eastern border. Let us remember this, not only on the anniversaries of his imprisonment."
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43997061-ruslan-szoszyn-sprawa-andrzeja-poczobuta-obnaza-bezradnosc-polskiej-dyplomacji
-- SAFE IS ANOTHER CAMPAIGN SPECTACULARLY MESSED UP BY CIVIC COALITION PEOPLE - AGNIESZKA KUBLIK IN GW: "In the PiS campaign headquarters, the approach 'we know what and how to do it ourselves' was forbidden. Campaign strategists drew on the experience and people from successful American campaigns. And now the Tusk government has botched the SAFE issue. This is evident in CBOS polls. At the end of February, 52 percent of respondents supported the EU arms project, while 35 were against. An alarming result, as the very idea of building a European security system during a war on our eastern border should be supported by an overwhelming majority. (...) Indeed, in another CBOS poll, from March 11, 43 percent supported the SAFE program, and 39 were against. This means the lead of supporters over opponents of SAFE decreased from 17 percentage points to just 4 in two weeks! (...) PiS has masterfully played the campaign of denigrating this program. They exploited the fears with which they have so skillfully played democrats for years. It's the fear of an 'outsider' conspiracy, a Brussels-Berlin conspiracy against Poland. PiS has now incorporated the fear of SAFE and Poland's dependence into its old fairy tale about the pro-German Tusk."
-- SIMULTANEOUSLY – ANOTHER WARNING FOR THE GOVERNMENT – OVER HALF OF RESPONDENTS (54 PERCENT) BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT VETOES APPROPRIATELY OFTEN AND SHOULD DO SO MORE OFTEN - Kublik continues in GW.
-- KUBLIK ON THE ACCELERATING PIŚ: "And the promise that someone will finally draw conclusions for the future. Elections to the Sejm and Senate – with Karol Nawrocki in the Presidential Palace, the accelerating PiS, the lurking Confederation of Mentzen and Bosak, and Grzegorz Braun gaining supporters not only in the rabbit holes of conspiracy theorists, Putinophiles, and anti-Semites, meaning another 'all-or-nothing' – are just over a dozen months away."
https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,32670166,safe-to-kolejna-kampania-koncertowo-zawalona-przez-ludzi-koalicji.html
-- CZARZASTY HAS MOVED UP TO THE FIRST LEAGUE, HE MAY COMPETE FOR THE PRESIDENCY - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: "The position of the Marshal of the Sejm is growing. And after some time, it may turn out that Czarzasty's ambitions to play in an even higher league will awaken. The next presidential elections, in which Nawrocki will fight for re-election, may turn into another battle for everything between the liberal camp and the conservative-national camp. And then it may turn out that Czarzasty, for the first time in decades, will be the first politician on the left who can play a role in the presidential elections."
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-polityczno-spoleczne/art43990921-michal-szuldrzynski-donald-trump-pomogl-urosnac-wlodzimierzowi-czarzastemu-marszalek-sejmu-moze-powalczyc-o-prezydenture
-- I FEAR A CAMPAIGN WHERE MEMBERSHIP IN THE EU COULD BE THE CORE ISSUE; LIBERALS MAY MAKE THE MISTAKE OF ASSUMING THAT, WHEN COUNTING VOTES ON THIS MATTER, THEY MUST HAVE MORE IN THE REALITY OF A "NERVOUS DEMOCRACY" - ESTERA FLIEGER IN RZ: "Therefore, I fear a campaign where Poland's membership in the European Union could be the core issue. It is true that the right-wing – as Szymański wrote – 'is drifting into a dead end of Euroscepticism.' Drifting, meaning it is practically acting unconsciously. However, liberals may make the mistake of assuming that, when counting votes on this matter, they must have more in the reality of a 'nervous democracy.' PiS and KO stand opposite each other like gunslingers. But what if a stray bullet flies?"
-- LET'S TAKE THE POLITICIANS' MATCHES AWAY FROM THEM INSTEAD OF DESCRIBING HOW NICELY THEY ARE BURNING - FLIEGER continues: "Firstly, I refuse to comment on who benefits or not from the topic of Poland's membership in the EU. Let's take the politicians' matches away from them instead of describing how nicely they are burning. Secondly, I repeat: calm will save us. I have a sentiment for a text based on the thought of Wojciech Bonowicz from 'Tygodnik Powszechny.' The poet wrote: 'You can't drink boiling water.'
https://www.rp.pl/publicystyka/art43989241-estera-flieger-czego-boje-sie-w-kampanii-parlamentarnej
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