The majority of the SEC grounded its decisions of 11 April 2019 on Article 16 of the Law on Local Elections, by way of analogy. This Article concerns the resignation of a candidate and stipulates that “after the announcement of candidacies, resignation from candidacy will not be taken into account until the end of elections. But in case these candidates are elected, their resignations are considered as verdicts and the ones following them are considered elected. In case of death, the same method is applied.”