As a starting point, it should be noted that there is no provision in Turkish law which would explicitly give the election commissions or the SEC the competence not to hand over the election certificate to an elected candidate in cases where ineligibility is invoked after the elections. Article 22 of the Law on Local Elections regulates the determination of mayors and states that “minutes on mayor elections sent by ballot box committees are combined by the District Election Board and the candidate taking the majority of the votes is elected as mayor” (paragraph 1). The law does not provide for any exception to this rule. Annulment of election results in an electoral district – and repeat elections in that district – is possible under Articles 25 and 29 of the Law on Local Elections, but only in situations where irregularities occur during the election process. The situation is different in the present case where an initial ineligibility said to have existed prior to the commencement of the electoral process has been invoked. For cases of ineligibility, the legal framework regulates the following two situations.