According to GAZETA WYBORCZA, sociologist Piotr Gliński may have academic achievements but the idea of putting him at the helm of a cross-party government of experts is a joke.The daily describes it as ‘Law and Justice’s political theatre’. The tabloid FAKT has comments from two analysts. One says that the vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Tusk’s government stands no chance to be passed and the whole situation has to be treated as nothing but virtual reality.
According to the daily’s other analyst, however, the candidacy of Professor Glinski is yet
another move by the conservative Law and Justice to create an image of a serious and open party which is determined to attract prominent experts.
RZECZPOSPOLITA writes the mild reaction to the move from both the leftist opposition and the co-ruling Polish Peasant Party shows that the fear against Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice is no longer the driving force in Polish politics.
The daily quotes a prominent sociologist as saying that Saturday’s protest march in Warsaw demonstrated that Law and Justice is able to rally tens of thousands of supporters while its latest move of putting forward Professor Gliński’s candidacy for Prime Minister shows that is keen to seek compromise.
If Law and Justice succeeds in building its new image, it’ll prove a more difficult opponent for the ruling Civic Platform, RZECZPOSPOLITA writes.
The weekly UWAZAM RZE takes to task former president Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Its left-leaning commentator Janusz Rolicki writes that Kwasniewski behaved like an Arab sheik, inviting a few hundred guests to his daughter’s wedding party and spending an estimated 60 thousand euros on an incredibly lavish celebration, with crowds of both government and private security guards on duty.
In Rolicki’s view, Kwasniewski lost his political instinct so much that he did not realize that his behaviour is like mounting a challenge to the Polish public opinion which is highly critical of nouveau riche manners. It seems reasonable to ask why, in a country with so much poverty around, a politician who calls himself a leftist was not able to donate such a considerable sum of money to a charity instead, writes Rolicki in the weekly UWAZAM RZE.
UWAZAM RZE also has an interview with the internationally-renowned Polish film director Jerzy Skolimowski who plays King Jan Sobieski III in a soon-to-be-released Italian-Polish feature on the 1683 Battle of Vienna, in which Sobieski defeated the Ottoman army.
Asked about another important event in Polish history about which the world should learn, Skolimowski says: ‘It would be good to make a film about the participation of Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain, about their futile heroism diplayed at a time when Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill already hatched a plot about the shape of post-war Poland.’ A film about Polish pilots from the famous Squadron 303 is likely to be my next project – Skolimowski told the weekly UWAZAM RZE. (pg)
Poland in the foreign media:
Poland Is Selling 12-Year Euro-Denominated Bonds Bloomberg
Poland to oblige PGNiG to sell 30 percent of its gas on exchange CNBC/Reuters
Polish Central Bank Expected to Cut Rates The Wall Street Journal
Poland to Open $3 Billion Helicopter Tender Defence Professionals/RIA Novosti
Jewish gravestones recovered from river in Poland JTA
Ukraine Presents Its National Projects In Poland Ukrainian News Agency
Press review was by Michal Kubicki