-- ZGORZELSKI ON THE KRAKOW CANDIDATE: WE ARE STILL ANALYZING ALL OPTIONS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-06-02

-- WHAT THE POLISH COMPANY CONTROL PROCESS IS EXPERIENCING DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A UKRAINIAN INVESTMENT IN A WASTE PROCESSING PLANT IS UNBELIEVABLE IN A CIVILIZED COUNTRY - JACEK FRĄCZYK IN BUSINESS INSIDER: “What the Polish company Control Process is experiencing during the implementation of a Ukrainian investment in a waste processing plant is unbelievable in a civilized country. You do everything according to the contract, you don't agree to proposals to break it and sneak in foreign contractors, and for that, you get punished, while the contractor uses every opportunity to rob you of money and drive you to bankruptcy.”

-- THE CITY OF LVIV CHEATED AND ROBBED US - COMMENTS A POLISH COMPANY - FURTHER IN BI: “The loose approach to law by Lviv officials may have serious consequences for many families in Poland. – We have 700 employees in the entire Control Process group, and about 2,000 people at suppliers and manufacturers across Europe. It is a huge network of people and companies who have not been paid because the city of Lviv cheated and robbed us – comments a Polish company.”
https://businessinsider.com.pl/biznes/lwow-wyrzucil-polska-firme-z-budowy-control-process-wygral-w-sadach-ale-przegrywa-w/3tw10rf

-- BARTOSZ CICHOCKI, FORMER POLISH AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE, RETURNS THE UKRAINIAN "FOR MERIT" AWARD - INTERIA:
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-byly-ambasador-polski-zwraca-ukrainskie-odznaczenie-protest,nId,23490740

-- POLAND MAY SOON BE FORCED TO GRIMLY TIGHTEN ITS BELT DUE TO EXCEEDING NATIONAL PUBLIC DEBT PRUDENCE THRESHOLDS. IT IS MOST LIKELY THE NEXT GOVERNMENT THAT WILL HAVE TO CARRY OUT DIFFICULT AND UNPOPULAR REFORMS - MIKOŁAJ FIDZIŃSKI IN RZ.
https://pro.rp.pl/raporty-ekonomiczne/art44520381-alarmujacy-raport-o-polskim-dlugu-publicznym-to-naprawde-ostatni-dzwonek

-- BETTER TO LIE DOWN THAN TO FALL? TUSK IS NOT MAKING BOLD MOVES, THE QUESTION IS WHAT VOTERS SHOULD ACTUALLY DEFEND - MARIUSZ JANICKI IN PRZYPISY NACZELNEGO TYGODNIKA POLITYKA: “This self-limitation also carried over to the second phase of Tusk's government after 2023 – no bold moves, better to lie down than to fall. The Prime Minister's reluctance for broader visions was reinforced by the deepening chaos in world politics, related to President Trump, the war situation, and security; thus, a new alibi was created. According to people from his circle, Tusk talks about the futility of 'creating 10-year strategies' when we don't know what will happen tomorrow. Voices are emerging that 'reactivity' has returned, avoiding putting forward ideas that will surely be attacked in the media before they even come into effect. But the question is, what should voters actually defend.”

-- YOU DON'T WIN ELECTIONS LIKE THIS. THESE LOW GOVERNMENT APPROVAL RATINGS, PERSISTING FOR MONTHS, CONTRIBUTED TO TRZASKOWSKI'S DEFEAT - FURTHER, THE FIRST DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Giving up on '10-year strategies' sounds reasonable at first glance, but without setting any direction, it starts to seem like nothing major is at stake anymore. Because long-term strategies, apart from their substance, have political significance; they organize voters' imagination, mobilize them to vote. Recent polls give the government around 31-33% support with over 50% societal disapproval; you don't win elections like this. These low government approval ratings, persisting for months, contributed to Rafał Trzaskowski's defeat.”

-- TUSK COMPLAINED ABOUT TRZASKOWSKI'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, BUT TUSK'S CAMPAIGN FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS – AND IT IS ALREADY UNDERWAY – ALSO LOOKS BAD - CLAIMS MARIUSZ JANICKI: “And this is becoming the main grievance against Donald Tusk – that he is wasting potential and time on a government that may be laborious but is somehow insignificant and ineffective, which in about a year will hand power back to Kaczyński. Tusk complained about Trzaskowski's presidential campaign, but Tusk's campaign for the parliamentary elections – and it is already underway – also looks bad. Hence the growing inclination to somehow punish the current authorities, even if by electoral absenteeism, even with the awareness that this means the rule of PiS and Konfederacja.”

-- KACZYŃSKI'S PARTY IS FLEXIBLE, IT WILL SURELY WAKE UP EVENTUALLY, BECAUSE THE CHAIRMAN, ALTHOUGH MENTALLY STUCK IN PREVIOUS DECADES, CAN OPEN HIMSELF UP TO PROGRAMMATIC AND IMAGE-BASED NOVELTIES - MARIUSZ JANICKI'S CONCLUSION IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Kaczyński's party is flexible; it will surely wake up eventually because, although the chairman is mentally stuck in previous decades, he can open himself up to programmatic and image-based novelties. The question is whether Tusk can do the same. Because the upcoming elections will also be a competition in the ability for self-transformation, shedding old traumas, patterns, and habits; it will require stepping out of the comfort zone. A completely new match is in preparation, also in terms of political and media technology. Whoever understands this first will win.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2345245,1,lepiej-lezec-niz-sie-przewrocic-tusk-nie-wykonuje-smialych-ruchow-to-moze-nie-wystarczyc.read?src=mt

-- IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND WITHIN ONESELF AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF WHY ONE ACTUALLY GOVERNS. KO TURNS OUT TO BE A PARTY NATURALLY FUNCTIONING IN OPPOSITION - LESZEK JAŻDŻEWSKI IN INTERIA: “When for years all effort goes into discrediting the competition, it is difficult to find within oneself an answer to the question of why one actually governs? KO turns out to be a party that naturally functions in opposition – formerly against the political class, today against the vision of Poland presented by PiS. However, it lacks what is necessary for efficient and sensible governing: a mission, vision, values, substantive staff, short- and medium-term goals. There are individual capable people (Sikorski, Domański, Berek, a few deputy ministers in the background of power) and that's it.”

-- HOW MUCH THE RULING PARTY IS IN ISOLATION FROM ITS NATURAL BASE AND HOW MUCH IT DOES NOT TREAT EXPERT, SOCIAL, OR BUSINESS COMMUNITIES AS PARTNERS - FURTHER, JAŻDŻEWSKI: “How much the ruling party is in isolation from its natural base and how much it does not treat expert, social, or business communities as partners is evident when comparing it with the real effort that Law and Justice undertook in its time, drawing from much more modest resources.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-rok-nie-wyrok-klincz-po-wyborach-prezydenckich-i-nowy-gracz,nId,23490287

-- DENIAL OF THE REASONS FOR DEFEAT IS A STRAIGHT PATH TO REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES NEXT TIME - RAFAŁ KALUKIN IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Or perhaps, instead of letting it go, one should use the anniversary to recall that headache? As a warning, so that this time one tries to do everything differently. Not to count on a miracle, and even less to wait with a pounding heart to see how the opponent might surprise us this time. Instead, for once, to surprise him first. But for this to succeed, one must first escape the trap of the present. Assess what went wrong last time and draw conclusions for the future. Because although politics is made here and now, its resolutions always come tomorrow.”

-- IN LAST YEAR'S CAMPAIGN, WE HAD KRZYSZTOF STANOWSKI AND HIS KANAŁ ZERO, WHICH CAUSED MORE DISRUPTION IN THE CAMPAIGN THAN ALL OTHER MEDIA COMBINED - FURTHER, KALUKIN: “In last year's campaign, we had Krzysztof Stanowski and his Kanał Zero, which caused much more disruption in the campaign than all other media combined. But before that happened, at the very beginning of the campaign, Trzaskowski organized an informal meeting for journalists. Of course, those from traditional media, as traditional thinking still prevailed. The question was asked whether he would go to Kanał Zero if such an offer was made. He responded quite angrily, stating that decent people do not visit certain places. Well, as the last of the candidates, he also spoke with Stanowski. Only that by then it was just an attempt to shed the label of a fat cat who had stopped keeping up with the nimble mice.”

-- FOR THE LIBERAL WORLD, ACCUSTOMED TO MANAGING THE PRESENT, THIS IS USUALLY THE WORST POSSIBLE STATE. BECAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ILLUSIONS - KALUKIN AGAIN: “A year after the lost presidential elections, there is a fragile balance. For the liberal world, accustomed to managing the present, this is usually the worst possible state. Because it allows for the enjoyment of illusions: polls may not give much reason for optimism, but neither do they for despair.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2344507,1,katastrofa-po-klesce-rok-temu-trzaskowski-przegral-nic-sie-nie-stalo-to-prosta-droga-do-powtorki.read

-- TUSK HAS CLEARLY DECIDED THAT AFTER THE REFERENDUM, THE OLD ORDER CAN NO LONGER BE DEFENDED. THEREFORE, HE IS NOT TRYING TO SAVE IT. HE IS TRYING TO REPLACE IT - MAŁGORZATA SKOWROŃSKA IN GW: “Donald Tusk has clearly decided that after the referendum, the old order can no longer be defended. Therefore, he is not trying to save it. He is trying to replace it. However, today it is not even known whether the people of Krakow rejected Aleksander Miszalski, or the entire political model he represented. And everything depends on the answer to this question: who will be the KO candidate, what kind of campaign the Coalition will conduct, and whether Krakow will turn out to be merely a painful accident at work, or the beginning of a crisis that will spread to other cities.”

-- PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCE OF THE REFERENDUM IS NOT THAT KO LOST THE MAYORALTY IN KRAKOW AT ALL. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS HAVE CEASED TO TREAT METROPOLISES AS IMPENETRABLE FORTRESSES - FURTHER, MAŁGORZATA SKOWROŃSKA IN GW: “Perhaps the most important consequence of the referendum is not that KO lost the mayoralty in Krakow. The most important thing is that right-wing politicians have ceased to treat metropolises as impregnable fortresses. And Donald Tusk has just received the first warning that the old political map of Poland is ceasing to be valid.”
https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,32829236,koalicja-obywatelska-przegrala-wojne-o-krakow-teraz-tusk-chce.html

-- ONLY THE VICTORY OF THE KO CANDIDATE IN KRAKOW CAN REPAIR THE IMAGE LOSSES CAUSED BY THE REFERENDUM OF MAY 24 - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “Only the victory of the KO candidate in Krakow can repair the image losses caused by the referendum of May 24. Then Tusk will come out and say: yes, we made mistakes, but we have learned lessons, we have convinced the people of Krakow that the problem was Miszalski, not the ruling party. Such an image success could prove very useful a year before the parliamentary elections, while simultaneously weakening the right-wing's plans to organize referendums in other cities. Precisely for this reason, a defeat in Krakow would be an image blow a year before the elections.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art44529211-michal-szuldrzynski-referendum-w-krakowie-jednak-wstrzasnelo-ko-donald-tusk-rozwiazuje-struktury

-- WIT STWOSZ, AS A CHILD OF JAN MATEJKO, IS AMONG THE MOST VALUABLE ITEMS AT TODAY'S POLSWISS ART AUCTION:
https://www.polswissart.pl/aukcja/letnia-aukcja-dziel-sztuki-2-czerwca-2026/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21513588236&gbraid=0AAAAADNROqrCit6xIPr3OhgrT8X4loE6b&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_vnQBhCxARIsADcZyxLeB1rrYALXXntHKnFLLYMUg862ZEtw2Sf5k-1H6bBCweoWiJsqgrMaApEXEALw_wcB

-- BIRTHDAYS: Stanisław Kluza, Tomasz Żółciak.