1. The citizens of the Republic of Lithuania aged 18 and over may be founders and members of a political party. 2. Founders of a political party shall become members of this political party from the recording of the political party in the Register of Legal Persons. During the same period a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania may be a founder or member only of one political party. 3. In order to establish a political party it shall be necessary that a political party would have in the Republic of Lithuania not less than one thousand founders. At their own or their representatives’ congress (meeting, conference), they must adopt a statute, a programme of the political party and elect management bodies of the political party as well as take a decision on the seat of the political party. A founder may, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, authorise any other person to represent him in a founding congress (meeting, conference) of the political party.
§ Article 5Establishment of political parties
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