
Łukasz Gibała and Monika Piątkowska will face each other in the second round of the presidential elections in Krakow, which will take place on October 11.
AI-generated summary
In the first round of the presidential elections in Krakow, none of the candidates exceeded the 50 percent threshold. votes.
Results of the first round
In the first round of the elections, Łukasz Gibała won the most votes, for whom 36.38 percent voted. voters, which translated into 93,042 votes. Monika Piątkowska took second place with 29.91%, or 76,514 votes.
The remaining candidates received the following support: Michał Drewnicki - 17.50 percent, Aleksandra Owca - 6.91 percent, Daria Gosek-Popiołek - 4.81 percent, Michał Klimek - 4.11 percent, Sławomir Pietrzyk - 0.37 percent.
When will the second round, which will determine the future of Krakow?
Because none of the candidates exceeded the 50 percent threshold. votes, a second round of elections is necessary. It will take place on Sunday, October 11.
Polling stations will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Where to look for information?
Detailed information on voting and the organization of elections can be found on the website dobre.gov.pl.
Everything indicates that the second round of the presidential elections in Krakow will be extremely exciting.
Gibała and Piątkowska thanked the residents with obwarzanki
Łukasz Gibała and Monika Piątkowska, who will face each other in the second round of the elections in Krakow, thanked residents in the city center for their votes and distributed obwarzanki on Monday (September 28).
The presidential candidates met with residents at Rondo Mogilskie, one of the main transfer hubs in the center of Krakow.
The founder of the Krakow for Residents association, Łukasz Gibała, appeared there before 7 with a box of obwarzanki, which he distributed to the residents.
In a conversation with journalists, he announced that he would devote the next 12 days, until the election silence, to direct meetings with residents, which - in his opinion - are the best way to convince them to vote.
He appealed to his opponent to run a substantive, hate-free campaign and declared that there would be no "below the belt attacks" from him.
Let's exchange arguments, let's argue, let the best man win, and let's not hate each other - he said to Monika Piątkowska.
The day before, during the election night, Piątkowska also drew attention to the hate surrounding the campaign. The senator, supported in local elections by KO and PSL, met with residents at Rondo Mogilskie at 9.30.
During the briefing, she referred to the previous polls, which initially gave her fourth place, and pointed to the upward trend and the final result exceeding previous forecasts.
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