Voters in a New Jersey community will decide whether a statue honoring Polish World War II victims will be relocated.

Jersey City’s governing body had been due to vote Wednesday on whether to repeal their decision to move The Katyn Memorial. But the measure didn’t get the five votes it needed to pass because five of the nine City Council members abstained, so a special election will be held later this year.

The Katyn Memorial, depicting a soldier bound and stabbed with a bayonet, honors the estimated 22,000 Poles massacred by Soviet troops in 1940. It has stood at Exchange Place in downtown Jersey City for three decades.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop wants to move the statue because of a planned redevelopment of the waterfront plaza.

(AP)