§ Section 5(untitled)

The following persons may not be nominated
as candidates in the election of the Saeima and may not be
elected to the Saeima:
1) upon whom the court has established trusteeship in
accordance with the procedures laid down in law;
2) who are serving a sentence in places of deprivation of
liberty;
3) who have been convicted of an intentional criminal offence,
except for the persons who have been exonerated or whose criminal
record has been extinguished or set aside;
4) who at the time of committing the offence provided for in
the Criminal Law were in a state of mental incapacity, a state of
diminished mental capacity, or also after committing a criminal
offence have become ill with mental disorders which have deprived
them of the capacity to understand their actions or to control
them and to whom a compulsory measure of medical nature in
relation thereto has been imposed which has not been revoked;
5) who are employees of the State security services,
intelligence or counter-intelligence services of foreign
countries or persons who have been in staff positions in the
State security service, intelligence or counter-intelligence
service of the USSR, the Latvian SSR, except for persons who have
been only the employees of the planning and finance,
administrative and economic departments of the Committee for
State Security of the USSR or the Latvian SSR;
6) who after 13 January 1991 have worked in the CPSU (LCP),
the International Front of the Working People of the Latvian SSR,
the United Work Collective Council, the Organisation of War and
Labour Veterans or the All-Latvia Salvation of Society Committee
or its regional committees;
7) who have been punished with a prohibition to stand as a
candidate in the Saeima, European Parliament, local
government council elections, except for the persons who have
been exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or
set aside.
[6 February 2014; 8 April 2021; 23 September 2021]