Clearly, this holds with respect to the candidates der and ihn, which are contained in the same surface structure fragment.
even regarding the two candidates Mann and Prf~sidenten that occur in the other fragment, there is no loss of evidence: since the reflexive pronoun is of binding-theoretic type A, and the fragment in which it occurs contains its binding category (the S node of the 7 this statement applies solely to the direct comparison of the involved occurrences, since in case of further, transitive coindexings, negative evidence stemming from decision interdependency may get lost (cf.