§ Article 3Universal Suffrage

1. Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania as well as citizens of other Member States of the European Union, permanently residing in Lithuania, who, on the day of elections, are 18 years of age shall have the right to vote in elections to the European Parliament. Citizens who have been declared legally incompetent by the court shall not participate in elections.
2. It shall be possible to vote or to stand as a candidate in elections only in one Member State of the European Union.
3. Persons who may vote or stand as candidates in the Republic of Lithuania and any other Member State of the European Union, must chose and vote or stand as a candidate only in one State. Citizens of the Member States of the European Union may not vote or stand as candidates if they do not have the right to vote in the home Member State.
4. A citizen of the Republic of Lithuania or any other citizen of the Member State of the European Union, permanently residing in Lithuania, who is at least 21 years of age on the day of elections, and who does not stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament in any other Member State of the European Union, may be elected in the Republic of Lithuania as a member of the European Parliament. A citizen of the Republic of Lithuania or any other Member State of the European Union shall be considered to be permanently residing in the Republic of Lithuania when he has declared his place of residence and the data relating to his place of residence in the Republic of Lithuania has been entered on the population register of the Republic of Lithuania prior to the reference date. The reference date shall be the date on which 65 days are left before elections.
5. Persons who, by the reference date, have not yet served their sentence imposed by the court, as well as persons to whom the application of compulsory medical measures, imposed by the court, has not ended by the reference date, and persons who have been declared legally incompetent by the court may not be elected as members of the European Parliament.
6. Persons who on the day of elections are in the active or alternative military service, also officers, non-commissioned officers and re-enlistees of the national defence system, police and the internal affairs service who, by the reference date, have not retired from the service, as well as officers of other military-type and security services who are on the payroll, and may not be elected as members of the European Parliament.
7. Persons who, on request of electoral committees, refuse to declare whether they satisfy the requirements of this Article, may not vote or stand as candidates.
8. Other direct or indirect abridgements of suffrage of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania or the European Union on the grounds of their origin, political convictions, social or property status, nationality, sex, education, language, religion, or the type or character of their occupation shall be prohibited.
9. A person who votes in the same elections in the Republic of Lithuania and any other Member State of the European Union, or who votes in more than one polling district, shall be held liable in accordance with the procedure established by the law.