(1) If one of the candidates for municipality head, mayor and county prefect or their deputies dies in the period from the day of publication of the acceptance of candidacy, the political party, or two or more political parties who proposed the candidate and the proponents of the list of candidates of a group of voters may propose in his/her place a new candidate, without collecting signatures in the candidacy procedure prescribed by this Act, up to 10 days before the elections are held.
(2) The validly proposed new candidacy shall be published on the notice board and website of the unit within 24 hours of the replacement of the candidate.
(3) If one of the candidates for municipality head, mayor and county prefect, or their deputy, dies less than 10 days before the election, replacing the candidate will be undertaken by the procedure prescribed in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, and the competent election commission shall order the postponement of the elections for municipality head, mayor and county prefect and their deputy, and at the same time the postponement of the election for members of the representative body of that unit for 14 days.