(1) If the mandate of a councillor expires prior to the expiry of the term he/she has been elected to, the mandate shall be assigned to the first following candidate on the same electoral list who has not been assigned the mandate of a councillor.

(2) If the mandate of a councillor who has been elected from the coalition electoral list expires prior to the expiry of the term he/she has been elected to, the mandate shall be assigned to the first following candidate on the electoral list who has not been assigned the mandate – a member of the same political party.

(3) A candidate who has been assigned the mandate of a councillor, and whose mandate has terminated due to assuming the office of the municipal president or lord-mayor, or municipal deputy president or deputy lord-mayor, may be provided with the mandate again, in the same session of the assembly of the local self-government unit provided that:

– the candidate’s office of municipal president or lord-mayor or municipal deputy president or deputy lord-mayor has terminated;

– there is a vacant councillor seat that belongs to the same electoral list, and

– the candidate has filed the request for assignment of the mandate of a councillor with the electoral commission of the local self-government unit.

(4) If the mandate of a councillor terminates prior to the expiry of the term he/she has been elected to, and the electoral list that the councillor was elected from contains no other candidates for whom the submitter of the electoral list has not obtained a mandate, the mandate shall belong to the submitter of the electoral list with the next largest quotient for which he has not obtained a mandate.

(5) The mandate of a new councillor shall last until the expiry of the mandate of the councillor whose mandate has terminated.

(6) Prior to the councillor’s acceptance of the mandate, a written consent to the mandate shall be provided by the candidate.