Yesterday's State of Play

Civic Coalition Weakens, Allies Rally: The Left as a Dam Against Braun, Zgorzelski's Strong Words on Volhynia, Czarnik's Effect: Confederation Now Only 4 Points from PiS.

Łukasz Mężyk

-- THE LEFT PUBLISHED A SPOT REFERENCING STRONG OPINION24 NOTATIONS: The Left overtakes Braun's Confederation! Only with your help will we defeat the brown, far-right.
https://x.com/__Lewica/status/2075817494116180290?s=20

-- PIOTR ZGORZELSKI IN A HALF-HOUR INTERVIEW WITH DANUTA HOLECKA ON TV REPUBLIKA SPOKE STRONGLY ABOUT VOLHYNIA: No tragic accidents, no difficult events, simply genocide. One certainty must be stated: the Ukrainian side must recognize that it was genocide, the order was very clear: exterminate the Poles.
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-10/z-pewnoscia-trzeba-postawic-ze-strona-ukrainska-musi-uznac

-- KO HAS LOST ALMOST 6 POINTS IN CBOS SINCE MAY: “Compared to last month, KO's ratings have decreased by 3.4 percentage points, and this is the largest change recorded in the July poll. In the longer term, the changes are even more visible - compared to May, the popularity of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party has decreased by 5.7 points, and compared to April, the current percentage of its declared supporters is as much as 6.9 percentage points lower.”

-- PIIS IS NOW ONLY 4 POINTS AWAY FROM THE CONFEDERATION IN CBOS.: “The most important competitor of KO also lost support in July (a decrease of 3 percentage points). The Confederation Liberty and Independence strengthened its position in third place, closing in on PiS – 15.2% of declared voters would like to cast their vote for it. After a drop in June, the ratings of Sławomir Mentzen's and Krzysztof Bosak's party have increased again (by 2.4 percentage points) and are close to the May result.”
https://cbos.pl/PL/publikacje/flashe_tekst.php?nr=25/2026

-- PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK: A Wall of Remembrance will stand in Warsaw with an eternal flame and the names of every found and identified victim. The Republic will not forget any of them. Europe of reconciliation after World War II was possible thanks to truth and calling things by their names. Whoever wants to join this community must be ready for this truth.
https://x.com/donaldtusk/status/2075822399220781199?s=20

-- SAMUEL PEREIRA: The right has no idea for issues close to people, so Donald Tusk is cleverly riding the anti-Ukrainian wave. By parroting others' messages, PiS cannot be surprised that two Confederations are constantly growing stronger. At PiS's expense. If it continues like this, Tusk will rule until 2031. Or even longer.
https://x.com/SamuelPereira/status/2075834453851586955?s=20


-- SŁAWOMIR MENTZEN, AT 3 AM AFTER A PRAYER BY CONFEDERATION ACTIVISTS, LIT FLARES AT THE VICTIMS' MONUMENT: At 3:00 AM, politicians and activists participated in a Rosary prayer for the victims of the Volhynian massacre. Just before 4:00 AM, Sławomir Mentzen, along with participants, lit flares at the monument, unfurling a banner with the inscription: “A crime that has not been settled continues!”, which refers to the ongoing glorification of the perpetrators of the Volhynian massacre in Ukraine.

-- KRZYSZTOF BOSAK ON THE 'FLOWERS OF VOLHYNIA' CAMPAIGN: https://x.com/krzysztofbosak/status/2075819056439914827?s=20

-- MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI: We must speak clearly: there will be no lasting trust without truth. There will be no respect where victims remain nameless, and perpetrators become heroes. Historical truth is not an obstacle to building good relations between nations. It is their only lasting foundation.
https://x.com/MorawieckiM/status/2075853209516568597?s=20

-- PRZEMYSŁAW CZARNEK: We are submitting a parliamentary resolution project concerning opposition to Ukraine's membership in the European Union in connection with the glorification of the perpetrators of the Volhynian crime.
https://x.com/CzarnekP/status/2075820316119482391?s=20

-- WE HAVE IMITATIONS INSTEAD OF POLITICIANS. THERE IS NO DEPTH OF COMPROMISE THEY WON'T EXCEED - KAZIMIERZ GROBLEWSKI IN RZ: “Most Polish politicians have never felt the real excitement that comes from the joy of changing the world for the better. Having all the tools at hand, they waste the opportunity given by voters, breaking it down into small pieces with every subsequent trick. When were we last proud of a Polish politician? Exactly.”

-- ONE WOULD LIKE TO WRITE THAT POLITICS WAS DIFFERENT BACK THEN, IT WAS ABOUT POLAND - GROBLEWSKI CONTINUES IN RZ: “One would like to write that politics was different back then, it was about Poland, there were no such scandals. Indeed, the great names from the first years of Polish democracy: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Olga Krzyżanowska, Bronisław Geremek, Zofia Kuratowska, Jan Olszewski, Wiesław Chrzanowski, Hanna Suchocka, Lech Wałęsa, Teresa Liszcz, Jacek Kuroń, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, and many others, are not associated with petty party dealings.

-- THE QUESTION: WHAT IS THIS GOVERNMENT FOR? – IS NAIVE. IT'S FOR THEM NOT TO GAIN POWER AND FOR OTHERS NOT TO MAINTAIN IT - GROBLEWSKI CONTINUES IN RZ: “The question: what is this government for? – is naive. It is for them not to gain power and for others not to maintain it. As long as we have power, we are safe. If we lose it, we will be held accountable. Therefore, we must maintain it. Bound by the regimes of party discipline, raising hands in the Sejm without knowing for what, scrubbing the daily talking points on X as their own views, politicians think they are doing politics. But in fact, they are not even standing next to politics. They can be in the Sejm for several terms, and yet true politics passes them by.

-- DO WE NEED POLITICIANS? YES. BUT POLITICIANS, NOT IMITATIONS - GROBLEWSKI CONTINUES IN RZ: “Do we need politicians? Yes. But politicians, not imitations. Who will restore dignity to Poles, which consists in not manipulating our emotions, not inciting us for political gain, sometimes against Germans, sometimes against Ukrainians. They apologize and ask for forgiveness. They take responsibility for their own mistakes.”

-- THE NEW GOVERNMENT UNFORTUNATELY HAD DIFFERENT PRIORITIES: REVENGE ON ENEMIES, FLATTERY OF A BLOODTHIRSTY, HARDCORE ELECTORATE, FUELING AN INTERNAL POLISH WAR - GROBLEWSKI: “The Civic Coalition had a comfortable situation after taking power. Poles longed for normality, wanted to breathe after PiS with the feeling that someone was governing well in their name. It was enough to take care of public finances, stop the wars, ensure politicians did not steal, gradually restore neglected standards, tell the truth, and address the problems neglected by PiS. And solve them. But the new government unfortunately had different priorities: revenge on enemies, flattering a bloodthirsty, hardcore electorate, fueling an internal Polish war, avoiding unpopular decisions, sowing xenophobic aversion to migrants. They didn't even keep an eye on their politicians, hungry after eight years in opposition, to prevent them from stealing.”
https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art44795451-mamy-podrobki-zamiast-politykow-nie-ma-szczytu-kompromitacji-ktorego-nie-przekrocza

-- 10th anniversary of the death of Michał Kornatowski.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Monika Olejnik, Piotr Kraśko turns 55. SUNDAY: Piotr Liroy-Marzec, Aleksandra Pawlicka, Michał Gostkiewicz, Łukasz Głombicki.
 


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