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Article 40
 

Election Representative


1. The party, the citizen who has declared himself to be and has been registered as a candidate for Seimas member shall authorise an election representative to represent them on all issues in the Central Electoral Commission or the constituency electoral committee. He shall participate in an advisory capacity at meetings of an electoral committee, having the right to express a separate opinion on all issues under consideration. Upon the announcement of the date of elections to the Seimas, authorisation by parties to represent them in electoral committees may be filed with the Central Electoral Commission the following day after the formation of an appropriate electoral committee. If the candidature of the election representative meets the requirements of this Law, the Central Electoral Commission shall, not later than within three days, register the authorisation given to him and shall issue the certificate of an election representative. The authorisation for an election representative shall expire after the lapse of 20 days following the proclamation of the final results of the election. The authorisation of an election representative in an appropriate electoral committee shall also lapse 20 days following the lodging of the application documents, if that the party, political organisation does not have a candidate (candidates) in the territory of that constituency.


2. Until the election day, the party, the citizen who has declared himself to be a candidate may revoke an authorisation at any time and authorise another person to be an election representative. In this case an election representative must be registered, a certificate must be issued to him, and the registration of the previous election representative must be terminated within three days.