§ Section 14(untitled)

(1) The Central Election Commission shall
examine the submitted lists of candidates and decide on
registration of each list of candidates. Lists of candidates,
which have been submitted in compliance with the requirements of
this Law, shall be registered in the Central Election Commission
and the submitters of the list of candidates shall be informed of
the decision taken.
(2) Registered lists of candidates cannot be withdrawn, and
only the Central Election Commission in one of the following ways
may make amendments to them:
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 elections to the European Parliament;
b) one and the same person has been nominated in lists of
candidates under different names or has also been nominated in a
list of candidates in another Member State of the European
Union;
c) the candidate has died;
2) by making corrections of a technical nature.
(3) A candidate shall be deleted from a list of candidates on
the basis of the information provided by the relevant State
institution or a court judgment. The fact that the candidate:
1) is not a citizen of the European Union - shall be certified
by the competent institution of the Member State of the European
Union the citizen of which the candidate claims to be (in the
Republic of Latvia - the Office of Citizenship and Migration
Affairs);
2) is nominated in the list of candidates of another Member
State of the European Union in the relevant elections - shall be
certified by the competent institution of the relevant Member
State of the European Union;
3) is not entitled to stand as a candidate in the Member State
of the European Union of which he or she is a citizen - shall be
certified by the competent institution of the relevant Member
State of the European Union;
4) is a person upon whom the court has established trusteeship
in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law shall be
certified by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
5) is serving a sentence in a prison or has been convicted of
a serious or very serious crime and the conviction has not been
extinguished or set aside - shall be certified by the Information
Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;
6) 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 -
shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of
the Interior;
7) has not reached 21 years of age by the election day or
information regarding him or her has not been included in the
electoral roll - shall be certified by the Office of Citizenship
and Migration Affairs;
8) has died - shall be certified by the Office of Citizenship
and Migration Affairs;
9) 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) - shall be certified by the judgment
of the relevant court;
10) 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, the All-Latvia Salvation of Society Committee or
its regional committees - shall be certified by the judgment of
the relevant court.
(4) The State administration institutions of the Republic of
Latvia referred to in Paragraph three of this Section shall
submit the relevant information to the Central Election
Commission without charge within three working days after receipt
of its request.
(5) If information that a nominated candidate does not have
the right to stand as a candidate in the elections to the
European Parliament is received by the Central Election
Commission later than the fiftieth day before the elections and
it is not possible 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 calculation of
election results the votes cast for the relevant person shall not
be counted.
[31 October 2013; 25 October 2018; 25 May 2023]