Poland's Kraków mayoral race heads to runoff after far-right candidate barred

Independent candidate Łukasz Gibała led Sunday's first round for Kraków mayor with 36.6 percent, ahead of Monika Piątkowska of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's governing Civic Coalition on 24.4 percent, exit polls showed, sending the race to an 11 October runoff. The far-right Confederation's candidate had already been barred from the ballot after more than 2,000 of his nomination signatures were found invalid, an outcome one of the party's own leaders called a 'catastrophe.'

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