Submission of application documents

1. In elections to the Seimas, a political party shall submit its own and nominee application documents to the Central Electoral Commission; every self-nominated candidate shall submit application documents to the municipal electoral committee. Submission of application documents shall begin 83 days before polling day and shall end at 5 p.m. 65 days before polling day.

2. Application documents for presidential elections shall be submitted to the Central Electoral Commission. Submission of the application documents shall begin 83 days before polling day and end at 5 p.m. 65 days before polling day.

3. In elections to municipal councils and in mayoral elections, the submission of application documents shall begin 83 days before polling day. The political party shall submit its application documents to the Central Electoral Commission not later than at 5 p.m. 70 days before polling day. After the Central Electoral Commission (at the latest within three days of receipt of the application documents) approves of the participation of a political party in the elections in question, the application documents of the candidates nominated by that party shall be submitted to the municipal electoral committee not later than by 5 p.m. 65 days before polling day. The application documents of political committees and self-nominated mayoral candidates shall be submitted to the relevant municipal electoral committee not later than by 5 p.m. 65 days before polling day.

4. For the purposes of elections to the European Parliament, every political party and political committee shall submit their own and nominee application documents to the Central Electoral Commission. Submission of application documents shall begin 83 days before polling day and shall end at 5 p.m., 65 days before polling day.

5. The nomination of candidates for early presidential elections held under Article 87 or Article 89(1) of the Constitution two months after the date of their announcement shall begin on the day following the entry into force of a resolution of the Seimas/the Government on the announcement of presidential elections and shall be concluded not later than 45 days before polling day. Where presidential elections are held earlier than two in months after the date of their announcement, the 45-day time limit shall be reduced by the number of days short of the two-month deadline.

6. Documents submitted after the expiry of the deadline for the submission of the application documents shall not be recognised as application documents.

7. Application documents shall be submitted electronically under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission and shall remain for permanent storage in the information system of the Central Electoral Commission.