state of play: 05/23/2026

STATE OF PLAY: Krakow Exit Poll on Polsat News Sunday, Gawryluk: Poland Can Influence Trump, We're Emerging Victorious This Week

Łukasz Mężyk

-- STARTING SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:30 PM, A REFERENDUM ELECTION NIGHT IN POLSAT NEWS, AT 9:00 PM, EXIT POLL RESULTS PREDICTION.

-- WHY DOES A POLITICIAN WHO WAS MEANT TO BE A SYMBOL OF MODERN KRAKOW HAVE TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL? - DAWID SERAFIN IN INTERIA: “The dip in polls was not a coincidence, but coincided with a powerful blow to the pockets of Krakow residents: increased waste disposal fees, higher property taxes, announced increases in ticket prices, water charges, and extended operating hours for the paid parking zone, along with new, higher fees. - This was indeed a moment of accumulation of many difficult changes, and it was my mistake - Miszalski will say in retrospect in an interview for LoveKrakow”.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/malopolskie/news-samotnosc-prezydenta-jak-krakow-zmusil-miszalskiego-do-walki,nId,23486145

-- WE ARE ABLE TO DIRECTLY INFLUENCE DONALD TRUMP. THIS IS ALSO A VERY GOOD STORY, OVERALL WE ARE EMERGING VICTORIOUS FROM THIS WEEK - DOROTA GAWRYLUK IN KALEJDOSKOP WYDARZEŃ ON POLSAT NEWS: “- The good news was that the Polish government is concerned about security issues (...). The second positive thing: we are able to directly influence Donald Trump. This is also a very good story - she explained. The journalist then added: - Overall, we are emerging victorious from this week”.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-echa-decyzji-trumpa-w-sprawie-zolnierzy-usa-w-polsce-dwa-poz,nId,23486491

-- FROM ASTRAZENECA TO A GOVERNMENT AGENCY. AND SHE EVALUATED MEDICINES THERE, INCLUDING THOSE FROM ASTRAZENECA. AS A "REWARD," SHE BECAME CHAIRWOMAN - JUDYTA WATOŁA IN GW: “This shouldn't have happened at all, because these are decisions that translate into tens of millions of zlotys - comments a former Ministry of Health employee. In March, Anna Kowalczuk took charge of the Medical Research Agency. And now she travels around Poland with Tadzik Tabletka”.

-- WATOŁA DESCRIBES THE GROTESQUE OPERATION OF THE ABM CHAIRWOMAN: “In the department responsible for communication and media contact, out of four employees, there isn't a single one left at the moment (sick leave or resignations). The chairwoman herself writes the posts. A few weeks ago – on the occasion of the European Economic Congress in Katowice – she wondered, for example, if 'industry events are marketplaces of vanity, and our participation in them is just showing off?'. And she immediately answered herself that events make sense!”.
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32805251,z-astrazeneki-przeszla-do-rzadowej-agencji-i-oceniala-w.html

-- WHO ALLEGEDLY TOLD A VERY EXPERIENCED POLITICIAN LIKE TUSK TO MEET WITH ACTOR GEORGE CLOONEY AT SUCH A HEATED TIME AND JOKE WITH HIM ABOUT THE NAME "DONALD"? - PIOTR ZAREMBA IN INTERIA: “But who allegedly told a very experienced politician like Tusk to meet with actor George Clooney at such a heated time and joke with him about the name 'Donald'? Trump hates Clooney, he is oversensitive about himself and monitors such things with crocodile vigilance. This really creates an impression of sabotage”.

-- IT IS POSSIBLE THAT TUSK'S REGRETTABLE GESTURES FURTHER WEAKEN POLAND'S POSITION IN THIS DANCE - ZAREMBA FURTHER IN INTERIA: “It is possible that Tusk's regrettable gestures further weaken Poland's position in this dance. But it is also possible that we were destined for this anyway. PiS's communications do not stem from precise knowledge on this subject, but from the logic of inter-party warfare. That is, also from domestic politics”.

-- SO PERHAPS TUSK IS ACTING RATIONALLY, FURTHER DISCOURAGING AMERICANS? PERHAPS THANKS TO THIS, HE WILL EVEN WIN THE NEXT ELECTION – BY RULING FATALLY – ZAREMBA AGAIN: “Perhaps thanks to this, he will even win the next election – by ruling fatally. At the same time, he announces a Russian attack in a few months. This is also for domestic political purposes, but what happens when this scare turns out to be closer to the truth than Tusk himself thinks?”

-- ŻUREK IS SPECTACULARLY HELPLESS - ZAREMBA AGAIN: “It is doubtful that Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek will be able to stop Ziobro from transferring to America. Although in other respects he shows indolence. He didn't know that something like a Geneva passport exists, used by people recognized as asylum seekers. Now he doesn't distinguish between the city of Washington and the state of Washington, even though they are at opposite ends of America. He is spectacularly helpless. And yet, the ruling party is blowing the trumpets of pursuit of Ziobro, exposing this helplessness to the citizens”.

-- THE THING IS, ZIOBRO DIDN'T STEAL ANYTHING. PERHAPS HE DIDN'T ALWAYS SPEND MONEY ON WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE. DOES THIS HOWEVER MEAN HE WAS THE BOSS OF AN "ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GROUP"? THIS QUALIFICATION, CULMINATING IN UP TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON, IS AN ACT OF PURELY POLITICAL VENGEANCE - CLAIMS ZAREMBA: “The matter has an additional dimension. It is possible, in turn, that an American judge will examine something more than just procedures. Tusk and his ministers are announcing that it is about 'defrauding the Justice Fund'. The thing is, Ziobro didn't steal anything. Perhaps he didn't always spend money on what he should have. Does this, however, mean that he was the boss of an 'organized criminal group'? This qualification, calculated for up to 25 years in prison, is an act of purely political revenge. Why would the Americans, governed by politicians closer to the Polish right than to Tusk, help in this revenge?”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-zdrada-tuska-zdrada-trumpa-kto-ma-racje,nId,23485480

-- BIRTHDAYS: Justyna Kopińska, Dorota Janowicz, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Adam Hofman, Grzegorz Sztolcman, Marek Wikiński, Małgorzata Okońska-Zaremba. SUNDAY: Krzysztof Martens, Cezary Gmyz, Jerzy Pokój.

 


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