(1) Lists of candidates conforming to the provisions of this Law shall be registered by the Central Election Commission.
(2) The lists of candidates that have been registered may not be revoked, and amendments may be made only by the Central Election Commission in the following ways:
1) by deleting the name of a nominated candidate if is ascertained that:
a) the candidate is not eligible to run for the Saeima elections;
b) the candidate has not resigned from his/her office (service) as prescribed by Article 6, Paragraph 1 or 2, of this Law;
c) the same person has been included in the lists of candidates bearing different names or in a candidate list bearing the same name distributed in different constituencies (Article 10, Part 3);
d) the candidate has died;
2) by inserting a mechanical correction.
(3) In the cases referred to in Sub-points “a” and “d”, Point 1, Paragraph 2 of this Article, the candidate’s name shall be deleted on the basis of a certificate issued by the relevant institution or of a court decision.
The following institutions may certify the relevant information:
1) the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs – that the candidate is not a citizen of Latvia or is a citizen of Latvia who has not reached the age of 21 by Election Day;
2) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate is serving a sentence in a penitentiary;
3) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate has been convicted of a deliberately committed crime and that his/her criminal record has not been expunged or annulled;
4) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that the candidate has committed a criminal offence in a state of incompetency, a state of limited mental competency or has become mentally ill after committing a crime and is incapable of taking conscious action or controlling it and as a result has been subjected to compulsory medical treatment or his/her case has been dismissed without applying such a compulsory measure;
5) the relevant court by its decision – that the candidate belongs or has belonged to the salaried staff of the USSR, the Latvian SSR, or another country’s state security, intelligence or counterintelligence services;
6) the relevant court by its decision – that after 13 January 1991, the candidate has been active in the CPSU (the CP of Latvia), the Working People’s International Front of the Latvian SSR, the United Board of Working Bodies, the Organisation of War and Labour Veterans, the All-Latvia Salvation Committee or its regional committees;
7) (deleted by the 09.05.2002 law);
8) the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs – that the candidate is dead;
9) the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior – that by a court decision the person is prohibited to run for elections of the Saeima, the European Parliament, City Councils and Regional Councils.
(4) The institutions specified in Paragraph 3 of this Article must present this information within five days in writing and free of charge to the Central Election Commission if so requested by the said Commission.
(5) If the Central Election Commission receives the information later than on the 50th day before Election Day that the nominated candidate is not eligible to run for the Saeima and if the Commission cannot make new ballot papers for the given candidate list, the voters shall be issued previously prepared ballot papers which contain the name of the ineligible candidate. The votes cast for this candidate shall not be taken into account when counting the votes and tallying voting results.
