Candidate’s questionnaire

1. In the candidate’s questionnaire, candidates must provide the following data:

1) first name, surname;

2) personal identification number;

3) date of birth;

4) address of the declared place of residence;

5) number of the document confirming the identity and citizenship of the candidate, and number of the documented proof of the right to permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania;

6) office held (service);

7) current or former membership of political organisations and the period of membership;

8) for candidates for the Seimas and presidential elections: absence of oaths or a pledges of allegiance to foreign state(s); for former holders of a citizenship of other state(s): documented proof of renouncement or loss of that citizenship; a written document drafted under certain formal and content requirements and attesting that the candidate is informed about the processing of personal data and understands that the Central Electoral Commission has the duty to receive data from the competent institutions of the Republic of Lithuania and other state(s) about oaths and pledges of allegiance to foreign states bounding candidates standing for elections to the Seimas and presidential elections in Lithuania, as well as on the existence, renouncement or loss of their citizenship of other state(s);

9) absence of an unexpired court-imposed conviction and/or penal sanction;

10) position(s) (if any) incompatible with the duties sought by a candidate standing in elections under the established procedure, and membership (if any) of an elected authority of another state;

11) record (if any) of deliberate collaboration with the special services of the former USSR. The website of the Central Electoral Commission must publish this data, alongside the name and surname of the person involved, within 24 hours from the submission of the questionnaire;

12) a conviction (court judgement) for having committed a criminal act imposed by the court of the Republic of Lithuania or a foreign state with effect after 11 March 1990, regardless of whether the conviction has expired or has been expunged from the criminal record. When providing this information, the candidate must indicate the place/country of handing down the conviction/judgement; the name of the authority that handed down the conviction/judgement; the date of the conviction/judgement; the kind of criminal act (crime or misconduct); the existence of intent in the commission of the criminal act (an act committed with intent or through negligence);
the degree of seriousness of the criminal act (minor, less serious, serious, or grave); the object of the criminal act (title of the section of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania and the article referring to the criminal act) or the name of the criminal act under the criminal law of a foreign state; and expiry or expungement of the conviction from the criminal record (if any) complemented by the date of the expiry or expungement. Moreover, the candidate’s questionnaire must also include the information (if any) that the candidate has been found guilty of a criminal act by a court judgment (decision) and the criminal act was subsequently decriminalised; or that the candidate has been found guilty by a foreign court of a criminal act which is not criminalised under the law of the Republic of Lithuania or the prosecution for which is considered to constitute political prosecution;

13) any previous removal(s) from the office of the President of the Republic or loss of the mandate of a Member of the Seimas, a municipal councillor, a mayor, or a Member of the European Parliament for breach of an oath, gross violation of the Constitution, commission of a crime, or gross violation of this Code, with indication of the institution which adopted the decision and the date of its adoption.

2. The presidential candidate shall additionally indicate in the candidate’s questionnaire the following data:

1) citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania as a home state;

2) permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania, within the meaning of the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, at least for the past three years.

3. In order to stand as a candidate at an election to the European Parliament, a candidate who is a national of another Member State of the European Union must additionally indicate in the candidate’s questionnaire:

1) the Member State of the European Union in which the candidate has the right to vote and the place or constituency of a Member State of the European Union on whose electoral roll the candidate was last entered;

2) restrictions (if any) of the candidate’s right to vote in elections in the Member State of the European Union of which the candidate is a national.

4. The candidate’s biography must contain the information on the candidate’s date and place of birth, education, foreign language skills, workplace, work experience, social activities, hobbies, and marital status.

5. If the questionnaire includes information on any convictions for premeditated crime, the candidate’s poster published by the electoral committee, as well as the poster featuring a list of candidates must indicate that the candidate has been convicted for a minor, less serious, serious or grave premeditated criminal act by a court judgment, complemented by an indication of the date of the conviction, the object of the crime under the title of the section of the Criminal Code, or the title of the criminal act under the criminal law of a foreign state, and, where the conviction has been expunged from the criminal record, the posters shall indicate the fact of expungement where such information is contained in the state registers, the European Criminal Records Information System or, in the absence thereof in these registers and the information system, has been provided by the candidate, except for the cases where the candidate has been found guilty of a criminal act which has subsequently been decriminalised or if the candidate has been found guilty by a foreign court of a criminal act which is not criminalised under the law of the Republic of Lithuania or the prosecution for which is considered to constitute political prosecution.

6. Where a candidate’s questionnaire contains information on deliberate collaboration of the candidate with the special services of the former USSR, the candidate’s poster published by the electoral committee as well as the poster featuring the respective list of candidates must indicate that the candidate in question had deliberately collaborated with the special services of the former USSR.

7. Where a candidate’s questionnaire includes information on the candidate’s prior removal from the office of the President of the Republic, or on the candidate’s loss of the mandate of a Member of the Seimas, municipal councillor, mayor, or Member of the European Parliament for breach of an oath, gross violation of the Constitution, commission of a crime, or gross violation of this Code, the candidate’s poster published by the electoral committee, as well as a poster featuring the respective list of candidates, shall indicate that the candidate in question had been removed from the office of the President of the Republic or had lost the mandate of a Member of the Seimas, municipal council, mayor or Member of the European Parliament for breaking an oath, gross violation of the Constitution, commission of a crime, or gross violation of this Code; the poster shall also bear the indication of the date of the relevant decision/judgement.