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1. Founders and members of a political party must be citizens of the Republic of Lithuania aged 18 and over.
2. Founders of a political party shall become members of this political party from the registration of the political party in the Register of Legal Entities. At the same time a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania may be a founder or member of one political party only.
3. For a political party to be established it shall have not less than one thousand founding members. Such founders at their own or their representatives' congress (meeting, conference) shall adopt the Statute, programme of the political party and elect the management bodies of the political party. A founder may, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, authorise any other person to represent him in the founding congress (meeting, conference) of the political party.