(1) The following documents shall be appended to the list of candidates:

1) a statement signed by the candidate included in the list of candidates that he or she agrees to stand as a candidate in the relevant council elections and agrees to the processing of his or her personal data which is to be carried out in accordance with the requirements of this Law;

2) a declaration signed by the candidate included in the list of candidates that he or she conforms to the requirements of Section 8 of this Law and the restrictions referred to in Section 9 of this Law do not apply to him or her;

3) the following information signed by every candidate included in the list:

a) given name, surname, year, day and month of birth, gender, nationality (optional) of the candidate;

b) personal identity number;

c) citizenship (nationality) of another state, if any;

d) the registered place of residence in Latvia (a city or a municipality);

e) places of employment and positions held (including positions in political parties, religious organisations, trade unions, associations and foundations) or – if there is no place of employment – occupation, status;

f) which educational institutions he or she has graduated (which year, what speciality or programme);

g) self-assessment of the Latvian language proficiency;

h) whether he or she has or has not collaborated with the State security services, intelligence or counter-intelligence services of the USSR or Latvian SSR as a non-staff employee of these services, an agent, a resident or safehouse keeper;

i) [11 November 2004];

j) if the candidate is a citizen of another European Union Member State – a confirmation of the candidate that he or she has not been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate and be elected by a court judgment in the European Union Member State of his or her citizenship;

4) a pre-election programme signed by all the candidates included in the list of candidates, the size of which may not exceed 4000 characters.

(2) If a person who has not been registered without interruption at the place of residence in the administrative territory of the relevant local government for at least the last 10 months before the day of submission of the list of candidates is nominated as a candidate, yet the person owns immovable property registered in this territory in accordance with the procedures specified by law, a true copy of the Land Register deed certified by a notary or a statement from the Land Registry Office regarding the ownership of the immovable property shall also be appended to the list of candidates.

(3) If a person who has not been registered without interruption at the place of residence in the administrative territory of the relevant local government for at least the last 10 months before the day of submission of the list of candidates is nominated as a candidate, yet the person has been employed in this territory (as an employee or as a self-employed person according to the law On State Social Insurance) for at least the last four months before the day of submission of the list of candidates, a statement from the employer or the State Revenue Service respectively shall also be appended to the list of candidates.

(4) [9 May 2002]

(5) If a person who on the day of submission of the list holds any position referred to in Section 10 of this Law is nominated as a candidate, a notification signed by the relevant person indicating that, in the event of being elected, he or she will terminate performance of his or her duties in the relevant position (service) within one month shall be appended to the list of candidates.

(6) If the name of the list of candidates is identical to the name of a registered political party or a registered alliance of registered political parties, an authorisation from the decision-making body of such political party or alliance of political parties shall be appended to the list of candidates entitling the submitters of the list to submit the list of candidates for the elections of the relevant council.

(7) If a combined list of candidates has been submitted by several political parties which have not united into a registered alliance of political parties, authorisation from all decision-making bodies of the relevant political parties shall be appended to the list of candidates.

(8) [11 June 2020]

[6 November 1996; 6 December 1996; 6 April 2000; 9 May 2002; 11 November 2004; 2 October 2008; 11 June 2020; 17 June 2020]