Referendum on the appeal of the president of the City of Krakow proved crucial and conclusive - informed the Municipal Committee on Referendum. The situation in the case of the City Council of Krakow is different. This vote failed to scope the required turnout threshold. The authoritative statements given so far concern attendance.
Residents of Krakow voted on Sunday in 2 separate referendums on appeal Presidentcities and Advicecities. Turnout and votes were counted independently, so both votes had different effects.
W referendum concerning the appeal President of the City of Krakow participated 29.99 percent. entitled. The number of valid cards exceeded the required attendance threshold, meaning that The referendum was important. In accordance with the applicable provisions, the mandate Alexander Miszalski They shall expire on the date of publication of the minutes of the electoral commissioner in the Provincial authoritative Journal.
Referendum of the city council
Otherwise, the referendum on appeal ended Krakow City Council. In this case attendance was 29.97 the percent of eligible persons and did not exceed the statutory threshold.
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In order for the appeal referendum to be valid, it must take at least 3/5 voters participating in the selection of the authority concerned. In the case of a referendum concerning the cancellation of the president of the City of Krakow, the required threshold was 158 555 crucial cards taken from urn and for the City Council of Krakow - 179,792.
Mr Miszalski spoke after the referendum
Before the authoritative results were announced, he referred to the case Aleksander Miszalski. president Krakow thanked the residents for their participation in the referendum.
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"Local democracy is precisely that the inhabitants have the last word. The past fewer months have been a very crucial lesson to me. The function of president Krakow was a large honour and responsibility. Not everything succeeded as I wanted" - he said.
