Local gov’t elections set for mid-November

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed a resolution on local government elections setting the election date for November 16, 2014, said government’s spokesperson Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. The runoff vote will be conducted, where necessary, on November 30, 2014. Committees should now compile candidate lists for all the major positions in the local governments. The pre-election silence will start at midnight of Friday November 14, 2014 and will last until the voting time is over. The highest fine for breaking the silence, for publishing pre-election polls, stands between PLN 500,000 and PLN 1 million. Poles will elect nearly 47,000 officials for local administrative units: municipalities, counties, voivodship councils and almost 2,500 heads of municipalities, counties as well as city mayors.