Elections in Krakow: What about the debate before the second round?

Gibała or Piątkowska? Krakow is counting down the hours until the second round of elections

The candidates will spend the last day of the election campaign in the field, talking to residents. There was no public debate broadcast by the media before the second round because the candidates had different visions of its course and ultimately did not reach an agreement on this matter.

Instead of participating in the debate, the candidates met with residents and gave interviews to the media. The campaign was also full of electoral court disputes, in which both sides accused each other of spreading false information.

Łukasz Gibała's committee accused Monika Piątkowska of suggesting that after taking over the office of mayor of the city of Gibała, she would carry out group layoffs in the municipal office. The court found this information to be untrue, ordered Piątkowska to correct it and prohibited further dissemination.

In turn, Monika Piątkowska's committee filed a motion against Gibale in connection with his statement that he never had any debts. The court agreed to the application and ordered the candidate to correct this statement and prohibited him from disseminating false information about debt.

Election silence in Krakow

The electoral silence will begin at midnight from Friday to Saturday and will last until the end of voting on Sunday at 21. There are financial penalties for violating it. During this time, you are not allowed to: hang up election posters or tear down existing ones. Agitation in any other form is also prohibited, including public incitement to vote for a specific candidate.

On Sunday, polling stations will be open in the same places as during the first round, from: 7–21. There are 454 voting districts in Kraków: 412 permanent and 42 separate ones, including: hospitals, social welfare homes and detention centers.

The right to vote is available to adult citizens with active voting rights who are registered for permanent residence in Krakow or have been included in a permanent voting circuit in the Central Register of Voters.

According to Barbara Golanko, director of the Krakow branch of the National Electoral Office, the voting results will be published on an ongoing basis on the website dobre.gov.pl. She noted, however, that the official results will be made public together with the publication of the paper protocol of the Municipal Electoral Commission, whose headquarters are located at Wszystkich Świętych Square in Krakow.

Golanko also explained that the results of the early elections for the president of Krakow are determined by the Municipal Electoral Commission in Krakow, and not the National Electoral Commission.

In the first round of early elections, Łukasz Gibała obtained 36.38 percent. votes, and Monika Piątkowska – 29.91 percent.

The early elections are a consequence of the referendum in which the president of Krakow, Aleksander Miszalski (KO), was dismissed from office in May.