According to survey data, Aleksander Miszalski will be the mayor of Krakow in the 2024-2029 term. In the exit poll IPSOS obtained 51.1 percent. votes. The difference over Łukasz Gibała is minimal (48.9%). We still have to wait for the official election result.
Łukasz Gibała (photo: Art Service) and Aleksander Miszalski (photo: Łukasz Gągulski) / PAP
In the second round of the presidential elections in Krakow, PO MP Aleksander Miszalski and councilor, entrepreneur and city activist Łukasz Gibała faced each other. According to an exit poll conducted by Ipsos for Polsat, TVN and TVP, 51.1% of votes were cast for Aleksander Miszalski. votes, and for Łukasz Gibała – 48.9 percent.
I accept the results of the second round of elections with great gratitude, but also with humility, because it is still a poll – said Aleksander Miszalski (KO) immediately after the announcement of the results of the Ipsos exit poll.
Then he turned to the inhabitants of Krakow who voted for him in the second round of elections. Thank you not only for your votes. Thank you for these two months of hard campaigning, for all the conversations on the streets, in squares, at markets, at kleparzów, at bus stops. For all these program ideas. For words of criticism. For everything that you gave me this enormous energy and enthusiasm for work every day – he said.
There is no question of laying down weapons in Łukasz Gibała’s staff, reports RMF FM reporter Agata Nurek. Everything will be clear only in a few hours, tomorrow at the latest! – say Łukasz Gibała’s supporters who gathered in the Lubicz Brewery. The candidate himself thanked for the votes and said he was proud of the result. His supporters – as an RMF reporter reports – still believe in victory over Miszalski.
Here are the profiles of both candidates who tried to win the election for the mayor of Krakow:
The PO MP achieved the best result in the first round of the elections for the mayor of Krakow, winning 37.21%. votes. His victory two weeks ago was quite a sensation, because in all pre-election polls Łukasz Gibała was in first place with a considerable advantage.
Aleksander Miszalski: I accept the result with gratitude and humility
This year, Aleksander Miszalski ran for president for the first time, he was supported by KO and Nowa Lewica, and before the second round, among others. Poland 2050.
He is 44 years old and is the chairman of PO in Małopolska. In 2019, he became an MP for the first time, previously he was a district councilor and a city councilor. He is a graduate of economics and international relations at the University of Economics in Krakow and sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Until he announced his run for the mayor of Krakow, he was an entrepreneur operating in the tourism industry.
Before the second round of local elections, Aleksander Miszalski was a guest of Rozmowa w noon on Radio RMF24 – you can find it HERE.
Councilor, entrepreneur, city activist Łukasz Gibała was the favorite in the presidential elections in Krakow. He won in all pre-election polls. Gibała won 26.79 percent two weeks ago. votes, and his rival, running with the support of KO and the New Left – 37.21 percent.
Łukasz Gibała /PAP
Łukasz Gibała is 47 years old, head of the Krakow for Residents association and the club of city councilors. This was his third start in the presidential elections in Krakow, but so far he has lost in the first rounds. Gibała has a rich political career. As an MP from KO, and then from Ruch Palikot, he sat in the Sejm twice. In 2015, he unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as an independent candidate. Since this defeat, he has focused on Krakow.
Łukasz Gibała: A very long night awaits us, the difference in results is small
For years, he was one of President Majchrowski’s biggest opponents. During the campaign, he emphasized the need for changes in Krakow and accused most of his competitors of continuing Jacek Majchrowski’s policy. From the beginning, he had the support of the Razem party and MP Daria Gosek-Popiołek.
He is a philosopher by education. He ran a company producing, among others, filaments for 3D printers (filament is a thermoplastic material in the form of a line wound on a spool). Before the second round of elections, however, he transferred his shares to his father to repay a debt of PLN 250 million. Debt became the main topic of the campaign, I decided to put an end to all speculations, he explained. More information about debt can be found HERE.
Łukasz Gibała, before the second round of the elections for the mayor of Krakow, was a guest of Rozmowa w noon on Radio RMF24 – you can find the entire interview HERE.
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More information about the first data on the election results, as well as reports from the headquarters can be found HERE.
