Nomination of candidates for elections to the European Parliament

1. For the purposes of elections to the European Parliament, a candidate may be nominated by a political party or a political committee that is registered under the procedure set out by law not later than 180 days before polling day, meets the statutory requirements regarding the membership size, and is devoid of the legal status of a political party or political committee under liquidation or a political party or political committee for which liquidation is initiated. This political party or political committee shall submit to the Central Electoral Commission a list of candidates listed in the order of precedence established by that political party or political committee. The list of candidates must be approved under the procedure set out in the statutes of the political party or the political committee.

2. The total number of candidates shall amount to at least five but shall not exceed twice the number of Members of the European Parliament to be elected in the Republic of Lithuania.

3. At least 10 000 voters must sign the list of candidates. This requirement shall not apply to the following entities:

1) lists of political parties which participated in the last elections to the European Parliament and received more votes than the minimum number of signatures required under this Article for supporting the list;

2) all candidates and political organisations, when a state of emergency is established in all or part of the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, an emergency is declared under the procedure set out by law, a lockdown is imposed in the cases and under the procedure set out by law, the freedom of movement of persons is temporarily restricted, or other restrictions are imposed and this prevents the collection of voter signatures.