Far-right candidate excluded from Kraków mayoral election after signature blunder

Far-right candidate excluded from Kraków mayoral election after signature blunder

The candidate of the far-right Confederation (Konfederacja), one of Poland’s main political groups, has been disqualified from Kraków’s mayoral election after over 2,000 of the signatures from local residents collected in support of his candidacy were found to be invalid. One of Confederation’s leaders, Sławomir Mentzen, admitted that the situation was an “embarrassment” and “catastrophe”. […]

By Daniel Tilles