-- KRAKÓW MAYORAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN LATE AUTUMN OR WINTER, ALL DUE TO THE PROTEST AUTHOR - EDWARD NOWAK, ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY - NOT COLLECTING THE OFFICIAL COURT LETTER - DAWID SERAFIN AT INTERIA: “The elections for the Mayor of Kraków will be held in late autumn or winter – this is the most realistic scenario. Although the court dismissed the referendum protest and prepared a written justification, the decision cannot become legally binding. This is all because the author of the protest – Edward Nowak, associated with the Committee for the Defense of Democracy – has not collected the official letter from the court. The postponement of the elections until the end of the year also allows Civic Coalition to prepare a potential “financial surprise” for the future mayor.”

-- THE ELECTIONS FOR THE MAYOR OF KRAKÓW COULD TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF NOVEMBER OR THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER - SERAFIN CONTINUES: “Assuming the judges have enough time, the decision should be made by mid-August. From that moment on, nothing will stand in the way of announcing the elections. We also need to remember the so-called electoral calendar, which includes the steps that must be taken before the vote. Procedures and formalities take about three months. This would indicate that the elections for the Mayor of Kraków could take place at the end of November or the beginning of December.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/malopolskie/news-kiedy-wybory-w-krakowie-znamy-najbardziej-realny-termin,nId,23511224

-- HOW THE LAW AND JUSTICE PARTY IS FILLING HOSPITALS IN ITS STRONGHOLDS. WE CHECKED LUBLIN AND PODKARPACKIE VOIVODESHIPS - GRZEGORZ KOWALCZYK AT ONET: “Out of 11 hospitals supervised by the Lublin Voivodeship Marshal's Office, five of the facility heads are affiliated with Law and Justice, and two more have rapidly advanced their careers in entities supervised by politicians of this party – as determined by Business Insider Polska. Since 2018, the Voivode has been Jarosław Stawiarski from PiS. In Podkarpackie, governed by PiS since 2013, in three out of seven hospitals, the highest positions are held by individuals holding mandates as district councilors elected with the party's support.”https://www.onet.pl/informacje/businessinsider/tak-pis-obsadza-szpitale-sprawdzilismy-bastiony-partii-kaczynskiego/q32hpt2,211f4564

-- THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR IMPLICATING DAWID KACPRZYK APPEARS IN THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION OF A FORMER CIVIC PLATFORM POLITICIAN – DETERMINED BY “RZECZPOSPOLITA”. ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, SŁAWOMIR NOWAK INCITED THE ISSUANCE OF A FALSE MEDICAL CERTIFICATE - Izabela Kacprzak and Grażyna Zawadka in RZ: “In a conversation with “Rzeczpospolita”, Dr. Jędrzejewski assures that he had nothing to do with the case of false sick leaves. – The minister never asked me to issue any certificate. I had contact with the minister because I operated on him twice – explained the surgeon.”
https://www.rp.pl/przestepczosc/art44784221-odprysk-afery-korupcyjnej-lekarz-obciazajacy-kacprzyka-w-sledztwie-ws-slawomira-nowaka

-- COSMETICS INSTEAD OF HEALTHCARE REFORM. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO CALM SENTIMENTS - DOMINIKA PIETRZYK IN RZ: “After the scandal involving gigantic earnings of medics, the government had to show that it was regaining control over healthcare. However, the reforms announced by Minister Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda are primarily intended to de-escalate the political dispute. They have little to do with a true system overhaul.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art44791621-dominika-pietrzyk-kosmetyka-zamiast-reformy-ochrony-zdrowia-rzad-chce-uspokoic-nastroje

-- SOBIERAŃSKA-GRĘDA: I HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCES SO FAR. MOST OF OUR PROJECTS ARE APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-09/

-- AN INCREASINGLY PATHOLOGICAL MODEL: IN SMALLER CENTERS, WHERE PROBLEMS WITH ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ARE THE GREATEST, EXPENDITURES ON SALARIES GROW THE MOST - PATRYK SŁOWIK IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY: “Meanwhile, the Polish state does not employ any mechanisms to encourage work in smaller centers. As a result, those managing facilities in such places have to overpay significantly for doctor contracts. This way, we get an increasingly pathological model: where problems with access to healthcare are the greatest, expenditures on doctors' salaries grow the most.”

-- IN A FEW YEARS, WE WILL BE LEFT ONLY WITH A STRONG PRIVATE SECTOR. MANY OF US WILL NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT - SŁOWIK CONTINUES IN TP: “How it would be this time, we do not know. However, one thing is clear: the lack of any action or attempt at reform causes the public healthcare system to die before our eyes. And either we try to change it, or in a few years, we will be left only with a strong private sector. Many of us will not be able to afford it.”
https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/placimy-coraz-wiecej-czekamy-coraz-dluzej-afera-w-szpitalu-poludniowym-obnaza-system

-- IF TUSK DECIDED TO RESIGN NOW, IT WOULD BE LIKE ADMITTING TO A MISTAKE; THE NON-PARTY MINISTER WAS HIS IDEA, BUT PROBABLY IN THE AUTUMN, EXACTLY ONE YEAR BEFORE THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT RECONSTRUCTION - DOMINIKA WIELOWIEYSKA IN GW: “There will be no resignation of the minister; indeed, the resignation of the head of the National Health Fund was considered, and it could even be presented well propagandistically, as Filip Nowak also worked there during the PiS era. But Nowak is defended by Sobierańska-Grenda. Tusk has another plan, which he will implement depending on the dynamics of events. Let the minister present the project of changes, let her push them through the government and the Sejm. Let her try to sort out the system with Nowak based on these laws. But probably in the autumn, exactly one year before the parliamentary elections, there will be a government reconstruction, and then… If Tusk decided to resign now, it would be like admitting to a mistake; the non-party minister was his idea.”

-- THE GOVERNMENT HAS A YEAR AND A BIT TO PROVE THAT THE CHANGES WILL BLOCK EARNING SCANDALS - WIELOWIEYSKA CONTINUES IN GW: “The government's tricks, evasions, and image-building maneuvers do not change the fact that – setting aside the acknowledgment of justice that the ministry was not dormant before, and that the presented proposals have been in the works since 2024, but the chances of their implementation were slim – the changes can bring positive effects. Primarily, they can limit excessive pay gaps and improve the financial condition of hospitals. Although side effects may also arise, such as a shortage of doctors in some departments. The government has a year and a bit to prove that the changes will block earning scandals.”
https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,32903108,wielowieyska-rzad-tuska-swietnie-wie-co-trzeba-zrobic-w-sluzbie.html

-- I PROPOSE THE THESIS THAT HEALTHCARE REFORM CAN BE A CERTAIN ELECTORAL VEHICLE, IF IT IS TREATED SERIOUSLY - MARIUSZ JANICKI, DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF TYGODNIK, IN A CONVERSATION WITH KAROLINA LEWICKA ON PODCAST POLITYKI: “I think people are already sensitive after all these years, not only of Civic Platform governments but also of PiS governments, to such, I would say, campaigns, such propaganda and marketing campaigns. A spectacle where something or someone is punished, something will happen, there will be a loud speech by the prime minister. He got furious, so furious that people, I have a feeling, are increasingly resistant to this, so now they expect, I believe, a serious approach to the matter. And Prime Minister Tusk still has a chance for this. I propose the thesis that healthcare reform can be a certain electoral vehicle. If it is treated seriously, it can be a project that can be taken to the elections, but it must be well thought out.”

-- PERHAPS THIS ACTUALLY REQUIRES A POLITICAL FIGURE IN THE HEALTH MINISTRY AND SUCH A SERIOUS PROJECT, IN MY OPINION, HAS ELECTORAL PROSPECTS - MARIUSZ JANICKI CONTINUES: “It requires communication, it requires a certain type of responsibility, it requires a certain seriousness. And perhaps this actually requires a political figure in the health ministry who will have political support, who will clearly be taken seriously. And such a serious project, in my opinion, has electoral prospects. However, a purely marketing project will be irrelevant.”

-- FRIGHTENING WITH PIŚ, WHICH HAS TRANSFORMED, FRIGHTENING WITH PIŚ AND CONFEDERATES, THAT IS, BOSAK, MENTZEN, AND BRAUN, WELL, THAT IS NO LONGER SUCH HIGH-OCTANE FUEL - SAID KAROLINA LEWICKA: “I was recently touched by Bartosz Arłukowicz from Poland 2050, with whom I spoke in a political interview on TOK FM radio, whose statement could be summarized as follows: if voters do not extend the mandate of the current government, then those guys will come. And maybe we are not the best, but they are worse? So, it echoed the words of Beata Szydło from 2023. Try it, close your eyes, grit your teeth, and vote for Law and Justice, that is, the characteristic choice of the lesser evil in Polish elections and Polish politics. And I thought to myself, if a ruling coalition MP thinks about the 2027 elections this way, that they will convince their potential voters to cast their vote for the lesser evil, because otherwise, those guys will come, and those guys are worse. Well, that might not work. This campaign to mobilize their electorate. Because frightening with PiS, which has transformed, frightening with PiS and Confederates, that is, Bosak, Mentzen, and Braun, well, that is no longer such high-octane fuel.”

-- I AM INCREASINGLY LEANING TOWARDS THE CONVICTION THAT WE MUST BREAK FREE FROM THIS CIRCLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - MARIUSZ JANICKI: “I am increasingly leaning towards the conviction that we must break free from this circle of accountability. Polish politics must break free from this, because what is happening is increasingly being ridiculed by both sides.”

-- CIVIC PLATFORM OFTEN SIMPLY DOESN'T WANT TO. IN SHORT, RIGHT? THE OTHERS ARE VERY DETERMINED AND THEY WILL PROBABLY CARRY OUT THESE ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES - JANICKI CONTINUES: “Of course, in settling scores, perhaps they will not succeed, perhaps not at all, although it will probably be easier for PiS, because they do not have their own president. They are very determined, and PiS is always more determined and patient in revenge. Civic Platform often simply doesn't want to, in short. The others are very determined, and they will probably carry out these accountability measures.”

-- IT SEEMS THAT WE ARE STILL FAR FROM THE END OF THIS TERM, AND IT SEEMS AS IF IT IS CLOSE TO THE END OF THE SECOND TERM OF THIS GOVERNMENT - SAID KAROLINA LEWICKA: “It seems that we are still far from the end of this term, and it seems as if it is close to the end of the second term of this government. And also, as if they want to achieve something, they have to get rid of this impression, this fatigue, this wear and tear that is currently visible. Are they still able to do it? Well, they still have a chance. As I repeat, they have not yet fallen into a spiral. It is not yet like a corkscrew, it is not yet a corkscrew. No, it's like a reduced flight at the moment, I would say. But they still really have a chance, and everything still depends on them.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imxw8eYh53o

-- PIŚ HAS FORGOTTEN ITS LONG-STANDING PRO-UKRAINIAN AGENDA AND BEGUN TO COMPETE WITH BRAUN IN DISLIKE OF UKRAINE, AND THE GOVERNMENT GIVES THE IMPRESSION OF BIDDING ON WHO HELPED UKRAINE LESS - POLAND CEASES TO MATTER - PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ AT INTERIA: “While PiS has forgotten its long-standing pro-Ukrainian agenda and begun to compete with Braun in dislike of Ukraine, and the government gives the impression of bidding on who helped Ukraine less – Poland ceases to matter on the international stage. A serious debate about our national interest ceases to be possible.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-dwie-polski-jedna-przegrana,nId,23511075

-- BIRTHDAYS: Włodzimierz Puzyna, Mieczysław Łuczak.