Electoral political campaign treasurer

1. An electoral political campaign treasurer shall be a natural person who acts on behalf and in the interest of an independent campaigner on the basis of an assets trust agreement and has the rights and duties set out by this Code.

2. Holding the position of a treasurer shall be limited to citizens of the Republic of Lithuania or permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania, with the exception of the following persons:

1) candidates and persons seeking to stand as candidates;

2) electoral or referendum committee members;

3) referendum initiators and opponents;

4) auditors conducting an independent inspection of a political organisation or an independent participant;

5) natural persons who have been declared by the court legally incapable or of limited legal capacity in the areas of the exercise of the right to vote or financial management, or who have not completed serving a sentence and/or a penal sanction imposed by the court.

3. The treasurer shall:

1) register the income, expenditure, and financial liabilities assumed as part of financing an electoral political campaign, fill in and sign donation receipts;

2) be responsible for the anonymisation, under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission, of personal data (personal number, address, telephone number, e-mail address, account number, etc.) in the contracts which are submitted for publication on the website of the Central Electoral Commission;

3) fill in and sign the financing-related documents submitted to the Central Electoral Commission;

4) manage and store financial accounting documents of the electoral political campaign until they are submitted to the Central Electoral Commission;

5) control electoral political campaign expenditure and ensure that it remains within the limits set for electoral political campaign expenditure;

6) perform other duties set out in this Code.

4. In the event of a change of the treasurer, a campaigner shall report the change to the Central Electoral Commission no later than within five working days by submitting a copy of the electoral political campaign assets trust agreement and indicating the treasurer’s data published on the website of this Commission.