Today's State of Play

POLITICAL ARENA: "Do You Know Who I Am? I'm the Voivode's Representative and an MP's Assistant," Onet: "The Prosectorium Guy Liked to Hang Out in the ER"

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-- DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M THE VOIVODE'S REPRESENTATIVE AND AN MP'S ASSISTANT – 33-YEAR-OLD CIVIC COALITION ACTIVIST PIOTR MATAN IS ALLEGEDLY THE HERO OF A RECORDING PUBLISHED ONLINE. According to the presented information, he allegedly threatened a taxi driver during a ride, invoking his positions and influence. The recording features the words: "Do you know who I am? I'm the voivode's representative and an MP's assistant. You could lose your license any minute now."
https://x.com/rogalaremiza/status/2072384414571511808?s=20

-- THE VOIVODESHIP OFFICE IN KIELCE REACTED TO THE INCIDENT: “In connection with the unacceptable behavior, Voivode Józef Bryk, effective July 1st of this year, has dismissed Piotr Matan from the position of representative for cooperation with local communities and village administrators. We do not condone invoking influence or condescendingly treating other social groups,” the statement read.
https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/763958-awantura-radnego-ko-z-ukrainskim-taksowkarzem-wideo

-- THE MINISTER OF HEALTH REVEALED THAT HER ASSET DECLARATION INCOME ALSO INCLUDED A NON-COMPETITION CLAUSE AFTER BECOMING MINISTER: “Now, one day after the interview was published, the minister precisely indicated what constitutes the declared income. Firstly, it is ‘an amount of PLN 530,221.66 gross’ resulting from stable and variable remuneration at Szpitale Pomorskie, as well as compensation for the non-competition clause stemming from the management contract concluded with that company.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-burza-wokol-oswiadczenia-majatkowego-minister-zdrowia-teraz,nId,23508159

-- THE KINGDOM OF PROSECTORIUM COORDINATOR ARTUR HABOWSKI – SZYMON PIEGZA AND MAGDALENA RIGAMONTI IN ONET: “In recent years, illegal trade in deceased bodies occurred at Szpital Południowy. We spoke with, among others, families of deceased patients, as well as doctors, prosectorium employees, and funeral home representatives who reveal the behind-the-scenes of this scandalous practice. Here's what the kingdom of prosectorium coordinator Artur Habowski looked like.”

-- HE URINATED ON THE CORPSE – FURTHER IN THE ONET REPORT: “An employee of one of the funeral homes: – The client insisted, and we took the body from the South Hospital's prosectorium. We opened the bag – urine. He literally urinated on the corpse, packed it, and handed it over to us. When my employees told me about it, I called him, and he told me: ‘You provide services, so wash it yourself.’ This is a scumbag…”

-- WHILE POLITICIANS CODdLED BY KACPRZYK ALLEGEDLY BENEFITED FROM PRIVILEGES IN THE ER, THE BASEMENTS OF SZPITAL POŁUDNIOWY WERE ALLEGEDLY THE SCENE OF ILLEGAL BODY SALES – FURTHER AUTHORS OF ONET: “The hospital also created another special position: prosectorium work coordinator. The coordinator is Artur Habowski, a less-than-forty-year-old section technician who, with the consent of the Szpital Południowy authorities, built his kingdom. While politicians coddled by Kacprzyk allegedly benefited from privileges in the ER, the basements of Szpital Południowy were allegedly the scene of illegal sales of bodies and funeral services.”

-- HE ALWAYS LIKED TO SIT WITH DOCTORS IN THE ER. WHEN I SAW THIS ER DOCTOR, DAWID KACPRZYK, IN THE MEDIA, I REMEMBERED THEY KNEW EACH OTHER WELL – SAYS ONE OF OUR INTERVIEWEES TO PIEGZA AND RIGAMONTI IN ONET: “- I know he appears in the prosectorium in the morning and then goes to the wards. He always liked to sit with doctors in the ER. When I saw this ER doctor, Dawid Kacprzyk, in the media, I remembered that they knew each other well – says one of our interviewees. He adds that, in his opinion, Habowski spent more time on the upper floors of the hospital than in the prosectorium.”

-- WE HEAR FROM A WELL-KNOWN MEDICINE PROFESSOR: IF THIS IS TRUE, IT'S A SKINHUNTER SCANDAL – FURTHER IN ONET: “We have established that last year, based on a complaint filed against Artur Habowski, the hospital trade unions became interested in the situation in the prosectorium. The matter was then referred to the hospital management. And nothing changed in the prosectorium. We hear from a well-known medicine professor: If this is true, it's a skinhunter scandal.”
https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/warszawa/jak-prosektor-szpitala-poludniowego-handlowal-zwlokami-ujawniamy-kulisy/77trrt8

-- THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE REFUSED TO INITIATE PROCEEDINGS REGARDING THE PUBLICATION OF PHOTOS FROM AUTOPSIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS BY THE PROSECTORIUM COORDINATOR AT WARSAW'S SZPITAL POŁUDNIOWY. Investigators concluded that the publication was educational, not insulting.
https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/763946-prokuratura-odmowila-sledztwa-ws-zdjec-zwlok-z-prosektorium

-- KIERWIŃSKI: IF ANY OF THE DECISION-MAKERS KNEW ABOUT KACPRZYK'S EARNINGS AND THE PROBLEMS AT THE HOSPITAL, WE WOULD HAVE REACTED IN THE NAME OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FORMATION – 300LIVEhttps://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-02

-- AN OFFICIAL FROM GDANSK AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY – PIOTR ŻYTNICKI IN GW: “The concerns are not unfounded – the marshal's office is an institution headed by politicians. The Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for 16 years has been Mieczysław Struk from the Civic Coalition. Although the accusations concern the deputy director's private life, similar cases are sometimes used in political disputes. – I want to emphasize that I voluntarily handed over all devices to the police, I hid nothing – he says. He adds that he is in addiction therapy – first individual, now group. I ask if he started it before the police visit. – Only after the visit. He does not answer whether he admitted to possessing child pornography.”
https://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/7,35612,32888398,urzednik-z-gdanska-podejrzany-o-dziecieca-pornografie-bylem.html

-- THE CIVIC COALITION'S SITUATION IS INCREASINGLY RESEMBLING THE DECLINE OF PIS GOVERNMENTS – A POLL LEADER WITHOUT COALITION CAPABILITY WITH THE REST OF THE FIELD. IN THE LATEST ELECTION FORECAST BY ONET, DONALD TUSK'S FORMATION IS LOSING AGAIN – ONET FORECAST
https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/nowa-prognoza-wyborcza-onetu-kolejny-spadek-koalicji-obywatelskiej-tusk-powtarza-los/2zh693e

-- THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE AIR IS INCREASINGLY REMINISCENT OF 2014 AND 2015 – MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “The atmosphere in the air is increasingly reminiscent of 2014 and 2015. Back then, the narrative of Poland as a country in ruins, which also wanted to let thousands of Muslim migrants into its territory, deprived the PO-PSL coalition of power. The country was, of course, not in ruins; on the contrary, it was beginning to recover after the stagnation caused by the 2008 global crisis (which, incidentally, PiS quickly benefited from after taking power). We were also not threatened by a migrant invasion. But the incompetent communication of the rulers, the leadership crisis in the coalition, and the frustration accumulated after the crisis years resulted in PiS's victory. Today, there is no talk of ruin; on the contrary, we hear about a country that is objectively rich, but stolen from ordinary Poles. By the parasites living off us, the ungrateful Ukrainians. By the caste of politicians who arbitrarily distribute privileges to social groups that do not deserve them. Finally, by the bureaucracy that torpedoes our efforts to improve the quality of life.”

-- THE SITUATION FROM 2014 IS ALSO REMINDED BY THE GRIPPINGLY PASSIVE NARRATIVE OF THE RULING CAMP, WHOSE AMBITION IS TO STAY AFLOAT FOR A LITTLE LONGER, A MONTH, A YEAR, AND NOT TO DROWN – FURTHER BY DANIELEWSKI: “The situation from 2014 is also reminded by the grippingly passive narrative of the ruling camp, whose peak ambition is to stay afloat for a little longer, a month, a year, and not to drown in the rushing current of dominant moods. The rulers even recognize social emotions well, but not to change them, but to succumb to them. Hence the tough and brutal practice towards migrants at the border with Belarus, hence a much more assertive policy towards Ukraine and Ukrainians in Poland than under the PiS government, and hence further anti-bureaucratic and deregulation initiatives. The problem is that in these areas, the right-wing opposition will necessarily be more radical, louder, and usually more credible. Thus, the attempt to disarm it ends in practice by giving it ground.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2348629,1,nowi-wrogowie-narodu-kogo-pod-pregierzem-ustawia-kaczynski-braun-i-mentzen-machina-ruszyla.read

-- I OBSERVE A MECHANISM OF INCREASINGLY STRONGER IMMUNIZATION OF PUBLIC OPINION TO FURTHER SCANDALS – PROF. ANTONI DUDEK IN CONVERSATION WITH KAMILA BARANOWSKA IN INTERIA: “I observe a mechanism of increasingly stronger immunization of public opinion to further scandals and sticking to their previous political choices. This is a result of polarization. Some voters simply do not believe the message of the opposition or specific media and believe that they and the formation they have chosen are right. We will see, therefore, how loyal the Civic Coalition electorate is and how immunized it is to information about the hospital scandal. We already have a poll after the scandal, and it doesn't look like there's been any major shift. There is a slight weakening of the KO, but it's not like support has dropped drastically, as we would probably observe 20 years ago after such a scandal.”

-- I ALSO HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT PRIME MINISTER TUSK IS TRYING TO WAIT IT OUT. AND MAYBE HE WILL SUCCEED. HE MANAGED TO WAIT OUT TRZASKOWSKI'S DEFEAT – FURTHER DUDEK WITH BARANOWSKA: “I also have the impression that Prime Minister Tusk is trying to wait it out. And maybe he will succeed. He managed to wait out Rafał Trzaskowski's defeat in last year's presidential elections, and he didn't fare badly at all. Perhaps he assumes that he will also succeed in waiting out the hospital scandal, and then perhaps even Ms. Monika Piątkowska's potential defeat in the elections for the mayor of Krakow. But you are right, in the past, during his first terms, Tusk would have reacted differently, more drastically. I'm not saying he won't return to such a solution if the polls worsen. For now, however, this is not visible. If PiS fails to overtake the Civic Coalition in the polls on this scandal, it will mean that it is simply one of many scandals that have occurred and have not led to a change in the balance of power.”

-- THIS WILL MOST STRONGLY CARRY GRZEGORZ BRAUN, BECAUSE HE CAN SAY TODAY THAT HE WAS THE FIRST TO RAISE THIS BANNER AND ONLY HE IS CREDIBLE AND TRUE IN HIS CRITICISM OF UKRAINE – FURTHER DUDEK WITH BARANOWSKA IN INTERIA: “We can say with certainty that the Ukrainian issue will be one of the topics of the election campaign. Even if the historical dispute subsides, the one and a half million Ukrainians in Poland will not disappear. It is clearly visible that the wave of anti-Ukrainian sentiment is growing, and the question is how much higher it will rise in the next year leading up to the elections. This will most strongly carry Grzegorz Braun, because he can say today that he was the first to raise this banner and only he is credible and true in his criticism of Ukraine.”

-- THE SENATE PACT OF THE RIGHT WILL BE KAROL NAWROCKI'S MAIN INDICATOR OF POLITICAL EFFECTIVENESS, NOT HIS WARS WITH ZELENSKYY – STILL DUDEK: “However, I am more interested in the effectiveness or political efficacy of Karol Nawrocki on the domestic political scene, for example, whether he will manage to bring about a right-wing senate pact before the elections. This will be Nawrocki's main indicator of political effectiveness, not his wars with Zelenskyy.”

-- EVEN A SENATE PACT BETWEEN KONFEDERACJA AND PIS WOULD BE A SUCCESS, EVEN WITHOUT BRAUN – CLAIMS DUDEK: “Even a senate pact between Konfederacja and PiS would be a success, even without Braun. Braun will not have enough support for his candidates to win on their own. I don't think even the legendary Stan Tymiński would have won without a senate pact. Therefore, this will also be a test for Braun, because if he really wants to exist in Polish politics, he must have parliamentary representation and must calculate.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-kaczynski-nie-stawial-warunkow-ukrainie-ocknal-sie-za-pozno,nId,23507425

-- IN FOUR MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, THE PEGASUS COMMISSION, WHICH IS UNCLEAR ABOUT ITS CURRENT ACTIVITIES, HAS ALREADY SPENT PLN 700 THOUSAND. IN TOTAL, THE SROKA COMMISSION HAS COST US PLN 5.2 MILLION – REPORTS WPOLITYCE:
https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/763939-nasz-news-bizancjum-tyle-wydali-na-komisje-ds-pegasusa

-- POLISH INDUSTRY IS SLOWING DOWN. PMI AT ITS LOWEST IN 11 MONTHS – MONEY: “June brought a significant deterioration of sentiment in the domestic manufacturing sector. Orders are falling, and companies are reducing production and employment. The only good news for consumers is the slowing inflationary pressure, which gives hope for price stabilization in stores.”
https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/polski-przemysl-hamuje-pmi-najnizej-od-11-miesiecy-7302713718516032a.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Zbigniew Janas, Tomasz Siemoniak, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Błażej Strzelczyk.
 


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