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Local government elections in Krakow require candidates to collect at least 3,000 signatures of support. The electoral commissioner considers appeals against decisions to refuse to register candidates due to an insufficient number of valid signatures.
Dagmara Daniec-Cisło - electoral commissioner in Krakow - considered the dismissals of four candidates who had not collected at least 3,000 signatures of support to be unjustified.
Bartosz Bocheńczak from Konfederacja will not run in the elections because he submitted 2,745 correct signatures and 2,289 incorrect ones.
Marian Banaś, the former president of the Supreme Audit Office, will not run for power in the former capital of Poland. In his case, there were more signatures considered incorrectly submitted (3,611) than those accepted (2,048).
The next two appealing committees: Stanisław Kułach and Marta Ratuszyńska, failed to collect PLN 3,000 each. signatures of support. They submitted 382 and 80 signatures, respectively.
They will fight for power in Krakow
The Municipal Electoral Commission registered eight candidates for the mayor of Krakow. These are:
Michał Drewnicki (PiS),
Łukasz Gibała (Kraków for Residents),
Daria Gosek-Popiołek (Left Wing),
Jan Hoffman (one of the initiators of the referendum recalling the last president),
Michał Klimek (Confederation of the Polish Crown),
Aleksandra Owca (Together),
Monika Piątkowska (KWW Monika Piątkowska Nad Podziałami; support of KO and PSL),
Sławomir Pietrzyk (Social Democracy Poland).

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