Local elections in Poland: the PiS is probably submitted to municipal elections

In the cities of Krakow and Gdansk, the ruling Polish party failed to conquer the mayor's office. Their candidates were submitted to the opposition civic platform during the second round.

In a second round of local elections in Poland, the ruling party, Law and Justice, predicted that the elections to Krakow and Gdansk mayors would be lost. In the Baltic Sea town of Gdansk, incumbent MP Pawel Adamowicz won a sixth term at the Civic Platform after receiving nearly 65% ​​of the vote, according to Ipsos. The candidate of right and justice, Kacper Plazynski, had a little over 35%.

In Krakow, Mayor Jacek Majchrowski took office against Malgorzata Aquarius of Law and Justice. According to forecasts, he also had close to 65% of the votes. According to Ipsos, the opposition candidate, Bogdan Wenta, a former professional handball player, won the post of mayor of the city of Kielce.

The elections were considered as mood tests

On Sunday, the second-round elections took place among the future mayors of 649 cities. In the first round of 21 October, the candidates of the ruling party, the National Conservative Party, won the largest number of votes for the regional parliaments. The PiS, however, lost the mayoral elections in Warsaw, Poznan and Lodz against a moderate coalition of representatives of the European Union and led by the Civic Platform of Opposition.

The vote was considered a mood test for the controversial PiS policy, particularly with regard to the country's judicial system and the European Union. The party in power since 2015 continues to be very popular with its conservative base. Critics accuse justice and justice of having an authoritarian tendency.