Consequences of termination of the powers of a person elected in the multi-member constituency

1. If the powers of a person elected in the multi-member constituency terminate before the expiry of the term of office, the first runner-up who has not received a mandate shall fill the vacancy on the list of candidates under which the former Member of the Seimas, the Member of the European Parliament or the municipal councillor was elected (hereinafter: the ‘post-election list’).

2. After deciding to relinquish the mandate, the candidate on the post-election list must submit a request to renounce the mandate to the Central Electoral Commission in person, by signing the request with a qualified electronic signature, or by sending a notarised request by post, within seven days at the latest.

3. If the post-election list has no candidates who have not received mandates, the mandate(s) shall be transferred to another list based on the predetermined order of the lists of candidates established after the election for the distribution of mandates using the largest remainder method, namely, to first runner-up of the list of candidates that received the last mandate according to this order. In such a case, the first candidate on the list who has not received the mandate shall fill the vacancy in such a case, the first candidate on the list who has not received the mandate shall fill the vacancy.

4. The Central Electoral Commission must take a decision concerning to fill a vacancy no later than within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.

5. Upon the disappearance of the circumstances which formed the basis for recognising the powers of a municipal councillor as terminated before the expiry of the term of office on the grounds referred in Article 176(4), points (2), (4) and (5), such person shall have the priority right to fill an arising vacancy of a municipal councillor on the post-election list during the period between elections. In this case, within 15 days of the disappearance of the said circumstances, the person must submit to the Central Electoral Commission an application, notarised or signed with a qualified electronic signature, requesting that the Central Electoral Commission acknowledge the person’s place on the post-election list of candidates who have not been granted received a mandate of a municipal councillor.

6. It shall be permitted only once to acknowledge the position of the individual on the post-election list of candidates who have not been granted the mandate of municipal councillor.