Procedure in case of death of a candidate on the confirmed list of candidates for a Member of Council of the municipality and the City of Skopje

(1) If one of the candidates from the confirmed list of candidates passes away on the day of the confirmation of the lists of candidates, the political party or coalition that has proposed the candidate can propose another candidate instead, and if the candidate has been nominated by a group of voters, they can nominate another candidate instead, without collecting signatures in the candidacy procedure prescribed by this Code, in the period up until 10 days before Election Day.
(2) The deceased candidate shall be erased from the list of candidates and the candidate added to the list of candidates shall be introduced under the ordinal number of the nominated deceased candidate or shall be introduced as last on the list of candidates, in which case the order of the remaining candidates listed below the deceased candidate shall be moved one position higher on the list.
(3) If the deceased candidate is the head of the list, the list shall be amended in the manner prescribed in paragraph (2) of this article, and the candidate from the candidate list nominated by the list submitter shall be the head of the list.
(4) The candidate list to which the new candidate has been added in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this article shall be published in the manner prescribed by this Code pertinent to the publishing of the single list, not later than 24 hours from the day of the amendment of the candidate list.
(5) If one of the confirmed candidates from the candidate lists passes away in the period shorter than 10 days before the holding of the elections, the candidate list shall remain effective.