Mayor The Best Man Win

You’d Be Stiff Too, If You Lost

Romanian villagers have voted to re-elect a dead man as their mayor, to prevent his living rival winning. Neculai Ivascu - who led Voinesti for almost two decades - died from a liver disease last Sunday, too late to cancel the contest. But the village's loyal residents still gave him 23 more votes than his rival.

FOOTNOTE: Dead certainty.