§ Section 13(untitled)

(1) The lists of candidates that have been
submitted in accordance with the requirements of this Law are
registered in the Central Election Commission.
(2) Registered lists of candidates cannot be withdrawn and
only the Central Election Commission may make amendments to them
in one of the following ways:
1) by deleting the nominated candidate if it is determined
that:
a) the person does not have the right to stand as a candidate
in the election of the Saeima;
b) the candidate is a person who has not resigned from his or
her office (service) in accordance with the procedures laid down
in Section 6, Paragraph one of this Law;
c) the same person has been nominated on the lists of
candidates bearing different names or on the list of candidates
bearing the same name in several constituencies (Section 10,
Paragraph three);
d) the candidate has died;
2) by making corrections of a technical nature.
(3) In the cases referred to in Paragraph two, Clause 1,
Sub-clauses "a" and "d" of this Section, the candidate shall be
deleted on the basis of a notice issued by the relevant
institution or of a court judgment. The fact that the
candidate:
1) is not a citizen of Latvia or is a citizen of Latvia who
has not attained 21 years of age on the election day - shall be
certified by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
2) is serving a sentence in a place of deprivation of liberty
- shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of
the Interior;
3) has been convicted of an intentional criminal offence and
his or her criminal record has been extinguished or set aside -
shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of
the Interior;
4) at the time of committing the offence provided for in the
Criminal Law was in a state of mental incapacity, a state of
diminished mental capacity, or also after committing a criminal
offence has become ill with mental disorders which have deprived
him or her of the capacity to understand his or her 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in relation thereto has been imposed which has not been revoked -
shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of
the Interior;
5) is or has been in a staff position in the State security
services, intelligence or counter-intelligence services of the
USSR, the Latvian SSR or of foreign countries - shall be
certified by the judgment of the relevant court;
6) after 13 January 1991 has 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 - shall be certified by the judgment
of the relevant court;
7) [9 May 2002];
8) has died - shall be confirmed by the Office of Citizenship
and Migration Affairs;
9) according to a court judgment is not entitled to stand as a
candidate in the Saeima, European Parliament, local
government council elections - shall be certified by the
Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior.
(4) The relevant information shall be submitted by the
institutions referred to in Paragraph three of this Section in
writing to the Central Election Commission upon request thereof
free of charge within five days.
(5) If information that a nominated candidate does not have
the right to stand as a candidate in the election of the
Saeima is received by the Central Election Commission
later than on the 50th day before the elections and it is
impossible to produce new ballot papers of the relevant list of
candidates, voters shall be issued with ballot papers of the
relevant list of candidates with the given name and surname of
this candidate. In counting the votes and calculating the
election results, the votes cast for the relevant person are not
taken into account.
[26 March 1998; 9 May 2002; 30 May 2002; 9 March 2006; 26
February 2009; 31 March 2010; 18 January 2018; 8 April 2021; 23
September 2021]