Candidates who were admitted to run in the elections must also have the effective right to carry out their mandate if elected. This is particularly true if there is no legal basis for (and final court decision on) denying the initial eligibility of candidates after the elections. The decisions of the Supreme Election Council in Turkey not to recognise elected candidates and to replace them with the second placed candidates (all belonging to another political party) in local elections of 2019, deprived citizens of their right to choose and were in clear contradiction with the expressed will of the people (CDL-AD(2020)011, para 22).