(1) In the Republic of Latvia the following persons have the right to stand as candidates in council elections:

1) a citizen of Latvia;

2) a citizen of the European Union who is not a Latvian citizen but who has been registered in the Register of Natural Persons.

(2) A person who has reached 18 years of age on the election day, is registered in the electoral register, to whom none of the restrictions referred to in Section 9 of this Law applies and who on the day of submission of the list of candidates complies with at least one of the following conditions has the right to stand as a candidate:

1) he or she has been registered without interruption at a place of residence in the administrative territory of the relevant local government for at least the last 10 months;

2) he or she has been working in the administrative territory of the relevant local government (as an employee or as a self-employed person according to the law On State Social Insurance) for at least the last four months;

3) he or she owns immovable property which is registered in the administrative territory of the relevant local government in accordance with the procedures specified by law.

(3) According to the provisions of this Law, a candidate may stand as a candidate only for one council in the Republic of Latvia. If extraordinary elections take place in one of the local governments, a councillor of another local government may be nominated as a councillor candidate to the council, however, in case of election, he or she shall lose the mandate of the councillor of the local government in which he or she was a councillor at the time of submitting the list of candidates.

(4) If the European Parliament and council elections take place at the same time, a candidate may stand as a candidate only in one elections.

[11 November 2004; 2 October 2008; 19 December 2019; 17 December 2020 / Amendment regarding the replacement of the words “Population Register” with the words “Register of Natural Persons” shall come into force on 28 June 2021. See Paragraphs 17 and 18 of Transitional Provisions]