(1) Upon creation of a new municipality, the President of the Republic shall schedule new elections of municipal councillors and municipality mayor within 14 days after the promulgation in the State Gazette of the decree on the creation of the new municipality.

(2) The municipalities or mayoralties from the territories whereof new political units of the respective type are created shall continue to exist. No new elections of municipal councillors or mayors shall be conducted in the said municipalities or mayoralties until the end of the current term of office.

(3) Upon the creation of a new municipality or mayoralty, the right to elect shall vest in the Bulgarian nationals and the nationals of another Member State of the European Union who satisfy the conditions referred to in Article 396 (1) or (2) herein and have a permanent-address or present-address (residence-address) registration within the territory incorporated into the newly created municipality or mayoralty at a date six months in advance of polling day.

(4) Upon the creation of a new municipality or mayoralty, the right to be elected shall vest in the Bulgarian nationals and, upon elections of municipal councillors, the nationals of another Member State of the European Union, who satisfy the conditions referred to in Article 397 (1) or (2) herein and have a permanent-address or present-address (residence-address) registration within the territory incorporated into the newly created municipality or mayoralty at a date six months in advance of polling day.