diff --git a/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tok_parse.c b/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tok_parse.c
index f42add1..72c4bed 100644
--- a/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tok_parse.c
+++ b/src/mwparserfromhell/parser/ctokenizer/tok_parse.c
@@ -1753,7 +1753,6 @@ Tokenizer_handle_single_tag_end(Tokenizer *self)
         return NULL;
     }
     if (PyList_SetItem(self->topstack->stack, index, token)) {
-        Py_DECREF(token);
         return NULL;
     }
     return Tokenizer_pop(self);