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1. Parties must file with the Central Electoral Committee the following application documents:
1) an application for the participation in the election;
2) copies of their registration papers; the programme and the election programme of the party may be submitted as well;
3) the list of candidates nominated in the multi-member constituency;
4) the list of candidates nominated in a single-member constituency;
5) an obligation signed by each nominated candidate to terminate, if elected, his employment or any other activities incompatible with the status of Seimas member, the consent to be nominated by this party in a specific constituency, a questionnaire for a candidate for Seimas member filled in by the candidate himself, as well as the extract containing the basic data from the income and assets return, presented to the State Tax Inspectorate, approved by that tax inspectorate to which the declaration has been submitted. The party shall also have the right to submit photographs and autobiography of each candidate;
6) an authorisation for a representative for elections to represent it in the Central Electoral Committee; the party shall also have the right to grant authorisation to represent it and the candidates nominated by it in the electoral committees of constituencies;
7) documents certifying that the election deposit has been paid;
8) if the party, political organisation nominated candidates or candidates’ lists during the preceding elections to the Seimas or municipal councils, it shall have the right to submit a copy of the report published in the press, which had to be published in pursuance of the laws on the elections to the Seimas and Municipal Councils, concerning the sources and use of funds for campaigning;
9) a copy of the financial statement for the preceding year, which had to be presented to the tax inspectorate pursuant to the Law on Political Parties and Political Organisations, which has been approved by the tax inspectorate to which this return was submitted; the party may also submit a copy of the account (report), which had to be publicly announced according to the Law on Political Parties and Organisations, concerning the budget revenue and the sources thereof, expenditures and their purpose.
2. The person who decides to nominate himself for the candidates for Seimas member, must submit to the electoral committee of the constituency the following documents:
1) application concerning his nominating himself for the candidate for Seimas member in this constituency;
2) a signed obligation to terminate, upon his election, his employment or any other activities incompatible with the status of Seimas member, a questionnaire for a candidate for Seimas member filled in by the candidate himself, as well as the extract containing the principal data from the income and assets return which has been submitted to the State Tax Inspectorate, approved by the tax inspectorate to which the return has been submitted. He shall also have the right to submit his photographs, autobiography;
3) a document certifying that election deposit has been paid. An authorisation by a candidate for represent him in the Central Electoral Committee and the electoral committee of the constituency may also be presented.
3. The constituency electoral committee shall within three days issue to the citizen who has decided to nominate himself as candidate for Seimas member individual forms with the first name and name of the candidate for the collection of voter signatures to collect signatures of voters of that constituency who support his self-nomination. The citizen who has decided to nominate himself as candidate for Seimas shall either himself collect voter signatures or charge other persons having the right to vote to perform the task. The person who collected the signatures shall put his signature at the end of the voter signatures collection form and shall be responsible for the collection of signatures according to the procedure laid down in this Law. In the form for the collection of signatures the citizen who supports the person’s self-nomination must himself fill in the following data: name, first name, number of the passport, date of birth, address of the permanent place of residence, and sign it. Where a citizen who supports the candidate’s self-nomination is unable, due to some physical disability or for some other reasons, to personally write down the required data in the form for signature collection, he may request any other citizen with the right to vote, except for the person collecting the signatures, to do this for him. In such an event a statement of the form prescribed by the Central Electoral Committee shall be drawn up and attached to the form for the collection of signatures. A citizen who supports the person’s self-nomination as candidate and has no physical disabilities which would preclude him from filling in his data must himself write down the data in the form for the collection of signatures. It shall be prohibited to bribe voters who supported self-nomination, to give or promise to give remuneration for supporting the candidate’s self-nomination also to demand under threat that the person put his signature or in any other way violate the principle of voluntariness. The candidate must return the forms for the collection of signatures to the constituency electoral committee not later than 40 days before the election. Upon receiving the forms for the collection of signatures, the constituency electoral committee shall verify them within 7 days. The constituency electoral committee shall count the number of signatures of the constituency voters who supported the citizen’s self-nomination. The following signatures shall not be counted: the signatures of persons with no right to vote, of voters who are not registered in the voter list of the constituency; of persons who failed to record all the data prescribed by this Law; if incorrect data are recorded; all signatures of the citizen who has signed for the self-nomination of the person several times. If it is established that the citizens’ signatures have been forged, that the principle of voluntariness or other requirements of this Law have been violated during signature collection, the constituency electoral committee shall recommend the Central Electoral Committee not to register the person as a candidate for the members of the Seimas. If it turn out, upon deducting the invalid signatures, that the number of signatures established in this Law has been collected in the forms for the collection of signatures, the constituency electoral committee shall recommend to the Central Electoral Committee to register the person as a candidate for Seimas member.
4. In the Seimas member’s questionnaire a citizen who has nominated himself or has been nominated as a candidate for Seimas member must fill in the following data himself: name, first name, number of the passport, personal code, date of birth, address of the permanent place of residence, whether or not he has an unserved term of the court-imposed sentence, whether or not he is in the active or alternative military service, whether or not he is an officer, non-commissioned officer or re-enlistee of the national defence system, police and the internal affairs service, who has not retired from service, as well as an officer of other military-type or security service, who is on the payroll, and whether or not he has the citizenship of another state, also to answer the questions specified in Article 98 of this Law- and to sign the questionnaire. The person who is under allegiance to a foreign state must repudiate it in writing and indicate in the questionnaire how and when he has done it. Other questions, additionally established by the Central Electoral Committee, may also be included in the Seimas member’s questionnaire, to which the person is not bound to give answers.
5. The filing of application documents shall commence 65 days before and shall end at 5:00 p.m. 34 days before the day of the election. The documents filed after the deadline for filing the application documents may not be recognised as application documents