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Article 13
 

(1) Lists of candidates that conform to the provisions of this Law shall be registered by the Central Election Commission.


(2) Lists of candidates that have been registered may not be revoked, and amendments may be made only by the Central Election Commission in one of the following ways:


1)  by deleting the name of a nominated candidate if is ascertained that:


a)  the candidate is not eligible to stand as a candidate in the Saeima elections;


b)  the candidate has not resigned from his/her office (service) as prescribed by Paragraph 1 or 2 of Article 6 of this Law;


c)  the same person has been nominated on lists of candidates bearing different names or on lists of candidates bearing the same name but submitted for several constituencies (Paragraph 3 of Article 10);


d)  the candidate has died;


2) by making an editorial correction.


(3) In the cases referred to in Clauses a and d of Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 2 of this Article, the candidate’s name shall be deleted from the list of candidates on the basis of a notice issued by the relevant institution or of a court decision.


The following institutions may certify the relevant information:


1) the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs – that the candidate is not a citizen of Latvia or is a citizen of Latvia who has not reached the age of 21 by election day;


2) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate is serving a sentence in a penitentiary;


3)  the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate has been convicted of a deliberate criminal offence and that his/her conviction has not been expunged or vacated;


4) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate has committed a criminal offence set forth by the Criminal Law in a state of mental incapacity or a state of diminished mental capacity, or after committing a criminal offence, the candidate has developed a mental disorder and thus is incapable of taking or controlling a conscious action and as a result has been subjected to compulsory medical measures, or his/her case has been dismissed without applying such compulsory medical measures;


5) the relevant court by its decision – that the candidate belongs or has belonged to the salaried staff of the USSR’s, the Latvian SSR’s, or another country’s state security, intelligence or counterintelligence services;


6) the relevant court by its decision – that after 13 January 1991, the candidate has been active in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the Communist Party of Latvia), the International Front of the Working People of the Latvian SSR, the United Board of Working Bodies, the Organisation of War and Labour Veterans, the All-Latvia Salvation Committee or its regional committees;


7) (Deleted by the 9 May 2002 Law);


8) the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs – that the candidate is deceased;


9) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that by a court decision the person is prohibited to stand as a candidate in the elections of the Saeima, European Parliament, city or municipality councils.


(4) If the Central Election Commission has made a request, the institutions specified in Paragraph 3 of this Article must present the relevant information within five days in writing and free of charge.


(5) If the Central Election Commission receives information later than the 50th day before election day that the nominated candidate is not eligible to stand as a candidate in the Saeima elections and if the Commission cannot obtain new ballot papers for the given list of candidates, the voters shall be issued previously prepared ballot papers containing the full name of the ineligible candidate. The votes cast for this candidate shall not be taken into account when counting the votes and tallying voting results.


(As amended by the 26 March 1998 Law, the 9 May 2002 Law, the 30 May 2002 Law, the 9 March 2006 Law, the 26 February 2009 Law and the 31 March 2010 Law)