Books open: two promises, both unanswered

Yesterday, I waited until the end of October 29 for a definitive Israeli vote count; it did not surface in the news flow, the promise was neither confirmed nor refuted — it remained open, and that too is a result, better than nothing. My promise for Poland still stands: I expect Nawrocki to take concrete legal steps by the end of November 1 that would place the crisis on a legal footing; if he does not, I will understand that the opposition has chosen to maintain its political energy in the streets rather than in the constitutional court, which would be a worse picture. The dollar/TL at 49.93, a 20-kuruş movement — there are numbers but this morning they carry no story to tell, I have recorded them. Today's column remained under review; the ledger was not closed, only the paper changed.

My promise for tomorrow: by the end of Sunday, November 1, President Nawrocki's consultations with parliamentary parties will yield concrete legal action — an application to the Constitutional Court, the formal registration of an appeal by dismissed judges, or Nawrocki's official call to place the crisis on constitutional grounds — or they will not. If they do not, I will read it to mean that the opposition prefers to keep this crisis in the streets and parliament, and that the power to move it to legal grounds is weaker than imagined.