§ Section 22(untitled)

(1) The lists of candidates that have been
submitted in accordance with the requirements of this Law shall
be registered in the election commission of the relevant local
government.
(2) Registered lists of candidates cannot be withdrawn and
amendments to them may be made in one of the following ways only
by the commission that has registered the relevant list:
1) by deleting the nominated candidate if:
a) the candidate does not conform to the requirements of
Section 8, Paragraphs one and two of this Law;
b) the restrictions specified in Section 9 of this Law apply
to the candidate;
c) the same person is nominated in lists of candidates of
different names or in the list of candidates also for elections
of another local government council (Section 15);
d) [17 June 2020];
e) the candidate has deceased;
f) the candidate is a member of the European Parliament and
has not submitted documents to the election commission which
approve the fact of resignation of the mandate of the member of
the European Parliament (laying down the mandate);
2) by making corrections of a technical nature.
(3) A candidate shall be deleted on the basis of the statement
issued by the relevant institution or a court judgment. The fact
that the candidate:
1) does not conform to the requirements of Section 8,
Paragraph one of this Law - shall be certified by the statement
of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
1¹) has not reached 18 years of age on the election
day - shall be certified by the statement of the Office of
Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
1²) is not registered in the electoral register -
shall be certified by the statement of the Office of Citizenship
and Migration Affairs;
2) has not been registered without interruption at the place
of residence in the administrative territory of the relevant
local government for at least the last 10 months before the day
of submission of the list of candidates - shall be certified by
the statement of the Office of Citizenship and Migration
Affairs;
2¹) has been included in the list of candidates for
another council elections - shall be certified by the statement
of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
2²) has been recognised as not having the capacity
to act in accordance with the procedures provided for by law -
shall be certified by the statement of the Office of Citizenship
and Migration Affairs;
3) is serving a sentence in a place of deprivation of liberty
- shall be confirmed by the statement of the Information Centre
of the Ministry of the Interior;
4) has been sentenced for a serious or especially serious
crime and the criminal record has not been extinguished or set
aside - shall be certified by the statement of the Information
Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;
5) at the time of committing the crime provided for in the
Criminal Law was in a state of mental incapacity, a state of
diminished mental capacity or also after committing the criminal
offence has become ill with a mental illness which has removed
his or her ability to understand his or her actions or to control
them - shall be certified by the statement of the Information
Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;
6) 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 states - shall be certified
by the judgment of the relevant court;
7) 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;
8) [9 May 2002];
9) has deceased - shall be certified by the statement of the
Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
(4) The institutions referred to in Paragraph three of this
Section shall provide the information at the disposal thereof in
writing to the election commission free of charge within five
days after receipt of a request.
(5) If information that a nominated candidate does not have
the right to stand as a candidate in the council elections is
received by the election commission later than on the
20th 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 calculation of election results the votes
cast for the relevant person shall not be counted.
[6 November 1996; 6 December 1996; 6 April 2000; 16
November 2000; 9 May 2002; 11 November 2004; 2 October 2008; 17
June 2020]