2. Is there a ban on donations from foreign interests to candidates?
Lithuania
Articles 12 and 13, Law on funding of, and control over funding of, political campaigns, as last amended on 28 November 2019 No XIII-2566.
Only the following persons have the right to make donations to political campaign participants:
1) citizens of the Republic of Lithuania – to independent political campaign participants of all political campaigns;
2) permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania holding the citizenship of any other EU Member State – to independent political campaign participants of political campaigns of elections to the European Parliament and municipal councils;
3) permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania who do not hold the citizenship of any other EU Member State or stateless persons – to independent political campaign participants of political campaigns of elections to municipal councils.
Persons who are not eligible under the law to fund political campaign participants are prohibited from supporting them in any form. It is prohibited to fund participants of political campaigns through third parties.
