Independent Łukasz Gibała wins Kraków mayoral runoff in setback for Prime Minister Donald Tusk
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Independent candidate Łukasz Gibała won Kraków's mayoral runoff on Sunday with 61% of the vote against Senator Monika Piątkowska on 39%, handing a setback to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's governing Civic Coalition in Poland's second-largest city. Turnout was 44.7% in the election following the May removal of Mayor Aleksander Miszalski. Gibała, who previously lost in 2024, campaigned on discontent over city debt and a low-emissions zone, and will now work with a city council where Civic Coalition and the Left party control 23 of 43 seats.
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