Campaigners

1. A campaigner shall be an individual or a political organisation that participates in an electoral political campaign and is registered by the Central Electoral Commission under the procedure set out in this Code.

2. Eligibility for being campaigners is open to the following entities:

1) political parties;

2) political committees;

3) lists of candidates in multi-member constituencies of municipal councils;

4) natural persons eligible for standing as candidates.

3. Registration of campaigners shall be run under the following conditions:

1) subject to voluntary application;

2) under nomination by a political organisation.

4. Application-based registration shall apply to political parties, political committees and self-nominated natural persons eligible to stand as candidates

5. Registration subject to nomination by a political organisation shall apply to natural persons eligible to stand as candidates who intend to stand as nominated rather than self-nominated candidates under this Code; this form of registration shall also apply to lists of candidates nominated by political organisations in multi-member constituencies of municipal councils.

6. For the purposes of presidential elections, elections to the Seimas, local elections, mayoral elections, and elections to the European Parliament, a political party may be registered as a campaigner subject to registration under the procedure set out by law not later than 180 days before polling day.

7. For the purposes of elections to the European Parliament, local elections, and mayoral elections, a political committee may be registered as a campaigner subject to registration under the procedure set out by law at least 180 days before polling day.

8. Natural persons eligible to stand as candidates may be registered as campaigners either upon their own application or on the nomination of a political party or a political committee. Subject to application, these persons may be registered as campaigners in presidential elections, in a single-member constituency of the Seimas, or in mayoral elections. They may be registered by a political party for the purposes of presidential elections and in a single-member constituency of the Seimas, while for the purposes of mayoral elections, they may be registered by nomination from a political party or a political committee.

9. The status of campaigners shall not be conferred on individual candidates entered on a list of candidates; under the requirements set out in this Code, an independent campaigner, namely, either a list of candidates or a self-nominated organisation, shall run and finance the electoral political campaign of individual candidates entered on a list of candidates.