-- BOSAK RULES OUT NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH PiS, BUT NOT A SENATE PACT - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-07/

-- IS TIME STILL ON DONALD TUSK'S SIDE? THE PRIME MINISTER WON'T WAIT IT OUT AND WILL TRY TO COVER UP SCANDALS - JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: "The Prime Minister is buying time. Things will get worse, and the government's defense capabilities are limited. The end of August and September will bring revelations on other matters that will cast the authorities in a bad light, and the closer it gets to the elections, the more crises there will be. The Southern Hospital affair shows that KO is slowly wearing out, even though it's still on top."

-- CAN WE TALK ABOUT A POLITICAL SCANDAL IF TWO DEPUTY MAYORS OF WARSAW HAVE BEEN DISMISSED - NIZINKIEWICZ STILL IN RZ: "The Southern Hospital affair is pushing Civic Coalition further from the top for another week. Indeed, one can speak of a political scandal if two deputy mayors of Warsaw have been dismissed, a young doctor Dawid Kacprzyk has returned 500,000 PLN, the prosecution is investigating the matter, and the head of government has commented on it."
https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art44777691-jacek-nizinkiewicz-czy-czas-jest-wciaz-po-stronie-donalda-tuska-premier-nie-przeczeka-i-nie-przykryje-afery

-- AS WE HEAR, NEW LEFT IS PRESSURING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE HEALTH MINISTER - KAMIL DZIUBKA IN ONE.NET: "A meeting of coalition leaders regarding the crisis surrounding health policy is expected to take place in the coming hours – according to Onet's information. We are learning that the health minister's position is threatened. Some coalition partners are pressuring for the resignation of Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda. We hear that New Left is pushing for the health minister's resignation; they have criticized Donald Tusk's personnel choices for the health ministry from the beginning. Our information indicates that a year ago – during a government reconstruction – Left proposed a "big name" for a potential health minister to the prime minister. The choice was different."
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/pilne-spotkanie-koalicji-posada-jolanty-sobieranskiej-grendy-wisi-na-wlosku/f9c5hg5,79cfc278

-- TRZASKOWSKI IS STUCK IN A SERIES OF CRISES RELATED TO THE SOUTHERN HOSPITAL. THE DISMISSAL OF THE DEPUTY MAYORS DIDN'T HELP MUCH - MICHAŁ WOJTCZUK IN GW: "Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is stuck in a series of crises related to the Southern Hospital. The dismissal of the deputy mayors didn't help much, and Trzaskowski has to reorganize the work of the entire city hall. Trzaskowski couldn't control it, and it grew into a nationwide scandal. The nervous decisions to dismiss two deputy mayors were supposed to end the crisis, but it seems they only fueled it. If he hoped this would extinguish the hospital scandal, he probably miscalculated. Because criticism immediately poured in from all sides, questioning why Tomasz Mencina, the deputy mayor responsible for corporate governance and company appointments, was not fired. The Southern Hospital operates as a commercial company."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,32897635,koszmarna-passa-trzaskowskiego-spoznione-reakcje-kryzys-w.html

-- DID RAFAŁ TRZASKOWSKI'S CAREER END ON JULY 1ST? - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ ASKED ON "STAN WYJĄTKOWY" - ONET: "Did Rafał Trzaskowski's career end on July 1st? - Andrzej Stankiewicz asked on 'Stan Wyjątkowy'. And Jacek Gądek replied that Trzaskowski's career in national politics is essentially over. He also stated that Trzaskowski has been a 'paper president' of Warsaw from the very beginning, and the consequences of the Southern Hospital scandal are 'devastating' for him."

-- TRZASKOWSKI IS A RETIRED POLITICIAN - SAID GĄDEK: "- It seems to me that Rafał Trzaskowski is already a retired politician in national politics. In fact, he has been a nominal president of Warsaw from the start. Realistically, Warsaw has no mayor. Rafał Trzaskowski has not been interested in Warsaw from the beginning. He doesn't want to deal with sewage, hospitals, roads, or trees. That's not his world. So, he is already a retiree in national politics. He is no longer taken seriously even by Civic Coalition itself - said Gądek."
https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/afera-w-szpitalu-poludniowym-zakonczy-kariere-rafala-trzaskowskiego-malowany/p8fbsdv

-- IN KO, WE HEAR THAT IN THIS SITUATION, GIERTYCH IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE SOLUTION - DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ IN NEWSWEEK: "- Probably, there would be relative calm in the most radical bubble at least until the elections. PiS will grumble, but they talk anyway, so what's the difference – we hear in KO about a scenario where Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek would be replaced by Roman Giertych. But there are more possible reshuffles. The Minister of Health, Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda, has until Tuesday to present proposals for changes in healthcare that Donald Tusk will approve. She is now calling experts and old acquaintances."
https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/ministra-zdrowia-zurek-giertych-w-rzadzie-szykuja-sie-zmiany/g3m3pv6

-- I WISH I WERE WRONG, BUT ONE CAN PREDICT THAT THE RUSSIAN PROVOCATION, WHICH THE AMERICANS ARE SAID TO BE WARNING ABOUT, WOULD NOT DETER ANTI-UKRAINIAN SENTIMENTS IN POLAND, BUT RATHER DEEPEN THEM – AND LEAD TO EVEN GREATER EROSION OF SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE IN THIS WAR - PAULINA SIEGIEŃ IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: "However, frightening people with war doesn't make much sense in Poland's case, because the Russian war has been going on here for a long time. The fact that today even friends of Ukraine, in expressing their support for it in defense against Russian aggression, begin with a ritual condemnation of the UPA and Zelensky, shows that we have already been captured by the Russian narrative, in which Ukrainian statehood has been reduced to a neo-Nazi junta."
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/straszenie-wojna-czy-polsce-grozi-rosyjska-prowokacja/

-- WE HAVE ALL BECOME HOSTAGES OF CONFEDERATION AND BRAUN - MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA'S PORTAL: "If someone had told us two or three years ago that Polish politicians would be outbidding each other on military aid for Ukraine, not in a race for medals and merits, but in a competition to see who could be held responsible for it, we would have thought it was a plot for some dystopian story about Poland ruled by Putin's puppets. Of course, Confederation, Braun's Korona Polska, and PiS trying to keep up are shining in this, but a large part of the ruling coalition also regularly tries to capitalize on the wave of anti-Ukrainian sentiments. More subtly, not beating the drum, but the triangle, but with a clear wink to those who believe that it's time to finally stand up to Ukraine, reduce aid, and tighten the screws on Ukrainians in Poland."

-- WE HAVE REACHED A POINT WHERE MILITARY SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE HAS BECOME A POLITICAL ACCUSATION. WE ARE HAVING FUN, IT'S JUST A SHAME TO THE TUNE PLAYED ON A BALALAIKA - CONTINUES DANIELEWSKI: "Because you don't have to love Ukraine, you don't have to see it in the European Union, you can be furious about its historical policy, but a bit of common sense is enough to understand that fueling anti-Ukrainian sentiments and building a front of opposition to military aid is only in the interest of one country – Putin's Russia. However, it seems that in the pursuit of power, all common sense has evaporated from the minds of most of the political class. We have reached a point where military support for Ukraine has become a political accusation. We are having fun, it's just a shame to the tune played on a balalaika."
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2349291,1,awantura-o-patrioty-dla-zdrajcow-z-ukrainy-wszyscy-stalismy-sie-zakladnikami-konfederacji-i-brauna.read

-- "SHE DESTROYS PEOPLE AND IS IMMUNE TO PUNISHMENT." WE REVEAL WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WARSAW WATERWORKS - RENATA KIM IN NEWSWEEK: "Another employee of MPWiK confided in one of the directors that he had moments when he didn't want to live anymore because of the president. He himself also wondered many times: maybe I am really as hopeless as the president says? - But most often, I am simply sad that there is no justice in this world. She destroys people and is immune to punishment. And this is something that is unacceptable - he assures."
https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/wodociagi-warszawskie-pracownicy-czuja-sie-nekani/7shcq79

-- BIRTHDAYS: Robert Tyszkiewicz, Lidia Staroń, Jan Rzymełka, Wojciech Lamentowicz.