A candidate gets to the run-off while in jail. A 20-year mayoral career ended with just one vote. On top of that, a sole candidate lost the vote. Local elections in Poland were peppered with many crazy stories.

Political landscape after Sunday's local elections. Big cities have cast a shadow over the victory Law and Justice had in the voivodeships. The latest data shows that the ruling party have done better than initially thought. However, the opposition says the victory is theirs. This a prelude to the parliamentary electoral clash next year.

The candidate of Civic Coalition, Rafał Trzaskowski has won the election for mayor of Warsaw in the first round after receiving 56,67 percent of votes. The United Right's candidate Patryk Jaki got 28,53 percent of votes, the National Electoral Committee (PKW) announced on Wednesday.

The former head of Poland's Supreme Court, Małgorzata Gersdorf, has called on all judges forced into early retirement by the Polish government since July to go back to their desks in line with EU court injunction. She issued the appeal in her "constitutional" role, she said in an open letter, challenging the authority of her government-appointed successor, and highlighting the judicial chaos in Poland at the moment.

During the Sunday's local elections, there were numerous complaints from people who had registered online to be eligible to vote and yet they were sent away from the voting stations. According to the Minister of Digital Affairs Marek Zagórski, the computer system did just fine on Sunday and that the problem lies in the faulty organisation on part of the local voting stations.

Bacause of the pilots and flight attendants who participate in the illegal strike organised by two trade unions operating within the company, PLL LOT has cancelled 28 flights by far (outbound and inbound), the spokesman of the LOT carrier, Adrian Kubicki informed Polish Press Agency (PAP) on Tuesday.

"I'm not guilty", says a young man whose car collided with the motorcade of the then prime minister Beata Szydło. Sebastian K. is accused of unintentional causation of an accident. The trial begins.

Polish national carrier fired 67 people for taking part in a strike. New report on global life expectancy. New mayor of Warsaw's assets are worth about 2 million zlotys.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said that there was "no place" for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that is to transport Russian gas to Germany and saying it would disrupt "energy relations" in Europe while on a visit to Berlin on Tuesday.

Poland's biggest construction firm Budimex has become the first in its sector to offer cash incentives to anyone who helps it find new workers at a time of the lowest unemployment in decades, the company said on Tuesday.

Local elections in Poland that were held on Sunday attracted attention of many international media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico.

The Polish Army is looking for soldiers and the minister of defense is personally trying to inspire people to join. In Lublin, where new brigade of the 18th Mechanised Division is set to be formed, Mariusz Błaszczak began a campaign called "Become a Soldier of Poland".

The European Commission's spokesman Margaritis Schinas said on Monday that by Friday's injunction issued against the implementation of the Polish Supreme Court law, the European Court of Justice shared the commission's view that the Polish law is incompatible with the EU law.

Poland's ruling eurosceptics could see their firm grip on power loosened over the next couple of years as liberal, city-dwellers angry at the government's democratic record are voting against them in growing numbers, regional elections showed.

Poland will announce regional election results on Tuesday at the earliest, an election official said, after an exit poll showed the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) scored limited gains in Sunday's contest.

I want this term of making Wrocław common and taking care of all residents of Wrocław, said the Civic Coalition's candidate for mayor of Wrocław, Jacek Sutryk, during the electoral evening on Sunday.

The incumbent Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz (36,7 percent) and United Right's candidate Kacper Płażyński (32,3 percent) will face each other in the second round of mayorship race, according to Sunday's exit poll by IPSOS for TVN24.

The incumbent Mayor of Poznań Jacek Jaśkowiak, backed by the Civic Coalition has secured himself another term in office after receiving 56,6 percent of votes, according to IPSOS exit polls.

There will be a second round of the mayoral race in Kraków. The first round on Sunday was won by incumbent Jacek Majchrowski (Civic Kraków Committee) who received 43,7 percent of votes. The United Right's candidate, Małgorzata Wassermann came in second with 33,6 percent, according to IPSOS exit poll.

In Łódź, the incumbent mayor, Hanna Zdanowska easily secured another term in office after receiving a huge majority of votes. The real battle for her, however, is only about to begin, as the Łódź voivode backed by Law and Justice claims Zdanowska has no right to hold the office.