Right to withdraw the application documents

1. Not later than 40 days before polling day, a political organisation, and a coalition of political organisations shall have the right to withdraw documents and the application documents of a nominee by submitting a request thereof to the Central Electoral Commission; a self-nominated nominee or a political party/committee nominee may withdraw his or her application documents by a notarised application or by an application signed by a qualified electronic signature.

2. Should the application documents be withdrawn by a political party/political committee as member of a coalition, this shall result in removal of the candidates nominated thereby from the joint list of candidates, complemented by a coalition name change for coalitions whose name contains a reference to the name of the party/political committee whose application documents are withdrawn. The political party/political committee as a coalition member withdrawing the application documents must notify the other member of the coalition and the Central Electoral Commission in writing about the withdrawal of the application documents. If withdrawal of the application documents leaves nominations of a single political party/political committee on the joint list of candidates, they shall participate in the elections only as candidates nominated by the party/political committee in question.

3. Should the withdrawal of the application documents or cancellation of registration of candidates result in fewer than 25 candidates remaining on the list of candidates running for elections to the Seimas, the registration shall be cancelled for all of the listed candidates. The same shall apply for elections to the European Parliament where the figure of remaining listed candidates is less than five, and for local elections where the figure of remaining listed candidates is less than half of the number of members of the municipal council to be elected in that municipality.