§ Section 5(untitled)

(1) A person may not be nominated as a
candidate in elections to the European Parliament and may not be
elected to the European Parliament if he or she in the Republic
of Latvia:
1) is a person upon whom the court has established trusteeship
in accordance with the procedures laid down in law;
2) is serving a sentence in a prison;
3) has been convicted of a serious or very serious crime and
whose conviction has not been extinguished or set aside, except
for the case when the person has been exonerated;
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 a mental illness which has deprived
him or her of the capacity to understand his or her actions or to
control them and on whom a compulsory measure of a medical nature
in relation thereto has been imposed which has not been
revoked;
5) has been punished with a prohibition to stand as a
candidate in the Saeima, European Parliament, local
government council elections, except for the person who has been
exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or set
aside.
(2) A citizen of the European Union who does not have the
right to stand as a candidate and be elected in the Member State
of the European Union of which he or she is a citizen may not be
nominated as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament
in the Republic of Latvia and elected to the European
Parliament.
(3) A European Union citizen who has been in a permanent staff
position in the State security service, intelligence or
counter-intelligence service of the USSR, the Latvian SSR (except
for the 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), as
well as a person who, 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 may not be nominated as a
candidate in elections to the European Parliament in the Republic
of Latvia.
[6 April 2006; 17 July 2008; 31 October 2013; 27 October
2022; 25 May 2023]