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Independent defeats Tusk's pick in Kraków mayoral race
Łukasz Gibała won Kraków's mayoral runoff as an independent, dealing a setback to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition in Poland's second-largest city.
In brief
Łukasz Gibała won Kraków's mayoral runoff as an independent, dealing a setback to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition in Poland's second-largest city. Independent Łukasz Gibała won Kraków's mayoral runoff with sixty-one percent of the vote, defeating Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Coalition candidate and taking…
Independent wins Kraków runoff
Łukasz Gibała, an independent candidate, won Kraków's mayoral runoff on Sunday with sixty-one percent of the vote against thirty-nine percent for Senator Monika Piątkowska, backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition.
“The people of Kraków have just regained their city!”
Gibała's fourth attempt succeeds
Gibała, a local councilor and former national lawmaker, narrowly lost to Civic Coalition's Aleksander Miszalski in twenty twenty-four.
Tusk's coalition faces national headwinds
Nationally, Civic Coalition remains ahead in opinion polls but current voting intentions suggest Tusk's coalition will fall short of a majority in scheduled fall parliamentary elections.
The key point
Independent Łukasz Gibała won Kraków's mayoral runoff with sixty-one percent of the vote, defeating Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Coalition candidate and taking control of Poland's second-largest city.
