The Navajo Nation Council on Wednesday approved a special run-off election to be followed by a general election, scheduled for next summer, to determine who will be the new president and vice president of the Navajo Nation, according to the Navajo Times.

The council voted 11-1, with Charles Damon II as the sole vote against, to hold the run-off election on June 2, 2015. All 17 of the original candidates who ran in this year’s primary would be qualified to be in the run-off election, including embattled candidate Chris Deschene.

Those 17 candidates will have their $1500 filing fee waived; new candidates will still have to pay it.

The special general election would then take place on August 4, and the new president will be sworn in in September if all goes according to plan.

President Ben Shelly has ten calendar days to approve the motion. He would also have to approve another piece of legislation passed by the council Wednesday that seeks to pardon and reinstate the nine members of the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors who were removed from their positions after being found in contempt of court by the Navajo Supreme Court earlier this year.

The elections bill would also provide around $317,000 to the Election Administration to fund the special elections.

Tuesday, Deschene filed a motion with the Navajo Office of Hearings and Appeals to void the order that disqualified him from being president in the first place.

Chris Deschene, the former Navajo Nation presidential candidate who underwent a gauntlet of challenges to his presidential candidacy earlier this year before being removed from the ballot, has filed a motion with the Navajo Office of Hearings and Appeals to void the order that disqualified him.

The petition stems from the December removal of Richie Nez as the chief hearing officer of the Office of Hearings and Appeals. Under Navajo law, Nez was supposed to get licenses from the bar associations in either New Mexico, Arizona or Utah, in addition to being licensed in the Navajo Nation Bar Association.

However, Nez did not obtain a license from any of those states. He said at the time he wouldn’t appeal his firing because he knew it was a possibility.

“Mr. Nez had no authority to enter the OHA Orders in this mater, [thus] all such orders are void. Accordingly, the OHA Orders must be vacated and Mr. Deschene restored as a rightful candidate for President of the Navajo Nation,” reads the introduction to the petition filed Monday by Deschene’s attorney, Edward J. Hermes.

Deschene’s removal came on the heels of Nez requiring Deschene to take a language fluency test, something that had not been asked of other candidates. Under Navajo law, presidential candidates must be able to speak and understand the language fluently and be able to write and read English fluently as well.

The postponed presidential election had been originally rescheduled for Dec. 23, but was pushed back to 2015, though no solid date has been set at this point. Joe Shirley Jr. and Russell Begaye are currently set to be the two candidates on the presidential ballot.