-- TUSK ANNOUNCES EXERCISES-MANEUVERS IN POLAND WITH FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-14

-- WE'LL SEE IN A FEW DAYS IF THE PEASANTS' EXPERIMENTAL COOPERATION WITH THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL - WŁODZIMIERZ CZARZASTY IN CONVERSATION WITH ARKADIUSZ GRUSZCZYŃSKI IN GW: “We'll see in a few days if the peasants' experimental cooperation with the president has been successful. Please remember that Mr. Nawrocki vetoed 39 laws, which is more than Aleksander Kwaśniewski did in 10 years and two terms in the Presidential Palace. Some of them were vetoed in an absolutely idiotic way and according to the rule that assumes continuous fighting with the government. I don't know how one could have vetoed the Lex Kamilek law, which is supposed to protect Polish children. Or the law introducing quick divorces in marriages of short duration and without children. The president believes that during a divorce battle, which often lasts 10 years, the former spouses will reconcile. This is a manifestation of right-wing naivety and stupidity. The right-wing, for example, believes that liberalizing abortion law will lead to mass abortions. They think women will use abortion every week. The right-wing thinks in 19th-century categories and doesn't keep pace with the changing world.”

-- I SADLY ADMIT THAT IN POLAND RIGHT NOW WE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME FOR BAD THINGS - CZARZASTY CONTINUES WITH GRUSZCZYŃSKI IN GW: “I sadly admit that in Poland right now we are having a good time for bad things. Political polarization divides us, we don't feel safe because there is a war going on beyond our border. Radical forces are gaining importance, people whose views have never been taken seriously are emerging from various holes. People like Grzegorz Braun, Sławomir Mentzen, Przemysław Czarnek, and Karol Nawrocki are gaining importance. However, I am calm: these times will pass sooner or later.”

-- I WANTED AN OFFICE TO BE PRESENT IN JEDWABNE THAT SHOULD STAND GUARD OVER HISTORICAL TRUTH. IF WE DEMAND TRUTH FROM UKRAINIANS REGARDING THE VOLHYNIAN GENOCIDE, WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO DEMAND THE SAME FROM OURSELVES - CZARZASTY CONTINUES IN GW: “Currently, I am the Marshal of the Sejm, and I wanted an office to be present in Jedwabne that should stand guard over historical truth. If we demand truth from Ukrainians regarding the Volhynian genocide, we have an obligation to demand a similar stance from ourselves regarding Jedwabne and the Kielce pogrom. While the former crime was committed with German inspiration, in 1946, there were no Nazis in Kielce anymore.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32910537,czarzasty-w-polsce-w-tej-chwili-mamy-dobry-czas-na-zle-rzeczy.html

-- KO COUNCILORS AT A CLINIC IN PIASECZNO LIKE VIPs - TOMASZ MOLGA IN WP: “Examinations without queues, help in obtaining referrals to specialists 'urgently,' prescriptions via SMS with one word: 'I need' – these were the services that local Civic Platform politicians expected from the staff of the municipal clinic in Piaseczno. They called directly to the management, and to the registry as a last resort. Wirtualna Polska has reached people who confirm their special treatment. – They treated us as if we were their private healthcare service – says the whistleblower. He was a participant and witness to events in 2024-2025.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/jak-vip-y-a-nie-zwykli-pacjenci-tak-radni-ko-korzystali-z-przychodni-w-piasecznie-7305937812957600a

-- THANKS TO EXCUSES, KACPRZYK DID NOT LOSE PART OF HIS COUNCILOR'S DIET, WHICH IS ABOUT PLN 300. - FLIP BACZKURA ON PORTAL ZERO: “Dawid Kacprzyk, a millionaire doctor from the Southern Hospital and a councilor of Ursus, repeatedly explained his absence from sessions and committees by other councilor duties. However, as Zero.pl portal found out, at least twice during that time he could have been on a 24-hour duty at the hospital. Thanks to such excuses, he did not lose part of his councilor's diet, which is about PLN 300.”
https://zero.pl/news/dawid-kacprzyk-usprawiedliwial-nieobecnosci-w-radzie-ursusa-w-tym-czasie-mial-pelnic-dyzur-w-szpitalu-poludniowym

-- THE PROSPECT OF HOLDING ZIOBRO ACCOUNTABLE IS RECEDING AGAIN. ANOTHER BLOW FOR THE GOVERNMENT - JAKUB MAJMUREK IN WP: “Undoubtedly, this is a problem for the government, and especially for the Minister of Justice, Waldemar Żurek. Public opinion – both that supporting the government and that opposing it – will interpret the court's decision as a defeat for the ruling coalition. Many voters will now think that Ziobro simply outsmarted the entire Polish judiciary. After the 2023 elections, the former minister mocked the promises of accountability for PiS, saying to the current coalition, 'I hope you won't turn out to be wimps.' And today, for many Poles, the government indeed looks like a 'bunch of wimps.'

-- BOTH THE HOSPITAL SCANDAL AND THE INABILITY TO HOLD ZIOBRO ACCOUNTABLE PROVOKE SIMILAR QUESTIONS: DOES THE GOVERNMENT CONTROL WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE COUNTRY? - MAJMUREK CONTINUES IN WP: “Both the hospital scandal and the inability to hold Ziobro accountable provoke similar questions: does the government control what is happening in the country? Ziobro had time to flee to the United States, using his still-valid asylum in Hungary, because Judge Joanna Grabowska did not make a decision on issuing a European Arrest Warrant for several months, waiting for the appeal of Ziobro's defenders against the decision to consent to the arrest of the former leader of Sovereign Poland to be considered.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/perspektywa-rozliczenia-ziobry-znow-sie-oddala-kolejny-cios-dla-rzadu-opinia-7307114387651008a

-- IF WE DON'T RAISE THE THRESHOLD, IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST POLITICAL MISTAKE THE COALITION COULD MAKE - CLAIMS KATARZYNA PEŁCZYŃSKA-NAŁĘCZ IN AN INTERVIEW WITH WP - GRZEGORZ OSIECKI: “If we don't raise the threshold, it will be the biggest political mistake the coalition could make – claims Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz in an interview with WP. Additionally, she proposed increasing the CIT tax for banks, arguing that the banking sector is achieving very high profits.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/pelczynska-minister-finansow-uslyszal-nasze-propozycje-jest-nowy-pomysl-7307090716481984a
 
-- WHEN OLD SCHEMES STOPPED WORKING, THE PIS LEADER AND HIS PARTY APPEAR LOST IN AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY - MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA PORTAL: “Jarosław Kaczyński has recently given the impression that he is living in his own world, inaccessible to ordinary mortals. When old schemes stopped working, the PiS leader and his party appear lost in an alternative reality.”

-- TODAY PIS RESEMBLES THE FORMATION FROM ITS WORST CAMPAIGN BEFORE THE 2011 ELECTIONS: SCHEMATIC, DIVIDED, EVOKING LITTLE EMOTION EVEN AMONG ITS CORE ELECTORATE - DANIELEWSKI CONTINUES: “The current activities of political parties should already be treated as a run-up to the parliamentary election campaign. In this context, Law and Justice seems to be in a deep intellectual crisis. A party that in the last decade was able to be creative, imaginative, and accurately read social moods, today resembles the formation from its worst campaign before the 2011 elections: schematic, divided, evoking little emotion even among its core electorate.”

-- PIS RESEMBLES A BURNED-OUT ROCK BAND STARTING ANOTHER TOUR WITH THEIR GREATEST HITS - DANIELEWSKI AGAIN: “PiS resembles a burned-out rock band starting another tour with their greatest hits. So, again, through its leader, it emphasizes the obsession with the Smolensk crash theory, again announces revolutionary institutional changes, again tries to build itself on xenophobic sentiments. But even in this last thread, it looks like a poor, unconvincing imitation of its competitors on the right side of the political spectrum. Kaczyński may denounce Banderism and announce that he will not let Ukraine into the EU, Przemysław Czarnek may borrow narrative categories from Putin and talk about Nazism reviving in Ukraine, but they still won't outdo both Konfederacja parties.”

-- KAROL NAWROCKI EFFECTIVELY RESPONDS TO EMOTIONS TODAY, WHICH IS CLEARLY SEEN IN THE POLLS, BUT THE PRESIDENT'S GOOD RATINGS DO NOT RADIATE ON THE POLLING FIGURES OF THE PARTY HE WAS A CANDIDATE FOR - DANIELEWSKI AGAIN: “Meanwhile, the lives of the more moderate right-wing electorate are unfolding elsewhere: in indignation over healthcare pathologies and outrageously high doctors' salaries, in fear of lack of stability, in the hope that a pro-development, predictable government is possible under a conservative ideological umbrella, with a slight touch of nationalism. Karol Nawrocki effectively responds to these emotions today, which is clearly seen in the polls, but the president's good ratings do not radiate on the polling figures of the party he was a candidate for. In polls after the outbreak of the hospital scandal, there is a slight downward trend for Civic Coalition, but PiS is also falling in all the most important polling firms: in Opinii24, in CBOS, in IBRiS.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2349985,1,notatnik-polityczny-ciekawy-przypadek-jaroslawa-kaczynskiego-dlatego-pis-jest-w-stagnacji.read

-- 20 YEARS AGO, Jarosław Kaczyński's government was sworn in.

-- ON THIS DAY in 1987, the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic adopted the law on the Commissioner for Human Rights.