As the candidates for local elections for the early elections in the municipality of Kavaja had resigned the day before the elections, on 25 May 2017 President Nishani postponed these local elections from 7 May 2017 to 25 June 2017 (coinciding with the general elections, see above). The basis for this was a request from the leaders of the majority and the DP. The date of the new elections exceeded the 45-day deadline of the Electoral Code but did not extend the mandate of the mayor because this was a case of early elections due to the dismissal of the mayor by the Constitutional Court on the basis of the decriminalisation law.