Nevertheless, in its decisions of 11 April 2019 regarding local elections the SEC changed its position and treated the prohibition from being employed in a public service by decree law as a ground for ineligibility, even though this is not expressly included in the law (a fact that was highlighted by the dissenting opinions) and the legal ineligibility conditions for the election of MPs and local officials are the same. It seems that the SEC based this position directly on the relevant decree laws and not on the above-mentioned eligibility provisions. In this connection, it referred to a decision made by the Council of State in 2017 – i.e. prior to its own, contrary decision of 2018 concerning MPs – according to which the prohibition of a municipal council member from public service due to terrorism-related charges led to the loss of eligibility.