A Long Island Democrat running to be a county legislator — who bizarrely went missing nearly five months ago — will remain on the November ballot anyway, a Nassau judge ruled Monday.

County legislature candidate Petros Krommidas, 29, disappeared in April after going for a late-night swim in Long Beach, where police later found his car abandoned near the boardwalk with his clothes and cellphone left behind on the sand. 3

But Republicans successfully sued to block Democrats’ efforts to replace Krommidas with community advocate James Hodge, with the judge siding with the GOP’s contention that the candidate wasn’t “legally declared deceased,” according to Supreme Court Justice Gary Knobel’s decision.

The move left county Democrats fuming and considering an appeal as early votin

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