A small town in Romania decided that change would be too much to handle, so they elected the incumbent mayor again. Unfortunately, he is dead.

“Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began — but still won the election by a margin of 23 votes.

A local official said the authorities decided to keep the poll open in case Ivascu’s opponent, Gheorghe Dobrescu, won, avoiding the need for a re-run.

“I know he died, but I don’t want change,” a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.

In the end, election authorities gave the post to the runner-up, but some villagers and Ivascu’s party, the powerful opposition Social Democrat Party (PSD), have called for a new vote.”

Maybe the city would have benefit from getting a life insurance quote for the mayor before his untimely death.