Jaroslav Polaček

He kept the office in the 2022 election. TASR reports that he seeks re-election in the election of 24 October 2026 with the support of a coalition of six parties.

Career

Polaček was re-elected mayor of Košice in 2022, at the age of 45, at the head of a broad coalition of parties that fielded 41 city council candidates. In 2022 he campaigned under the message that he wanted to continue and complete what he had started.

Positions

His 2022 programme, as TASR reported it, promised to finish projects including the Ďurkov-to-Košice heat pipeline, the Slanecká cesta reconstruction and the Mlynský náhon restoration, to keep repairing schools, kindergartens and roads, to rent renovated municipal flats to people in need, and to complete sports facilities and make the covered swimming pool a national swimming centre. For 2026, TASR reports that he stands with a coalition of KDH, SaS, Nova, the Hungarian Alliance, the Roma Coalition Party and DS-ODS.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. TASR · TASR

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