(1) The following persons shall not be nominated as candidates in the council elections and shall not be elected to the council:
1) who are serving a sentence in places of deprivation of liberty;
2) upon whom the court has established trusteeship in accordance with the procedures laid down in law;
3) who have been convicted of a serious or especially serious crime, except for the persons who have been exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or set aside;
4) who at the time of committing the offence provided for in the Criminal Law were in a state of mental incapacity, a state of diminished mental capacity, or also after committing a criminal offence have become ill with a mental illness which has deprived them of the capacity to understand their actions or to control them and on whom a compulsory measure of medical nature in relation thereto has been imposed which has not been revoked;
5) who after 13 January 1991 have worked in the CPSU (LCP), the International Front of the Working People of the Latvian SSR, the United Work Collective Council, the Organisation of War and Labour Veterans or the All-Latvia Salvation of Society Committee or its regional Committees;
6) who are or have been in staff positions in the State security services, intelligence or counter-intelligence services of the USSR, the Latvian SSR or of foreign states;
7) [9 May 2022];
8) who have been punished with a prohibition to stand as candidates in the Saeima, European Parliament, local government council elections, except for the persons who have been exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or set aside.
(2) A citizen of the European Union who has been deprived of the right to be nominated as a candidate and to be elected by a court judgment in the European Union Member State of which he or she is a citizen may not be nominated as a candidate in council elections or elected to a council in the Republic of Latvia.
[6 November 1996; 6 April 2000; 9 May 2002; 11 November 2004; 26 April 2007; 2 October 2008; 11 June 2020; 17 June 2020; 20 October 2022]
