1. The following persons enjoy the right to be elected (passive suffrage):

1)       in the elections to the Sejm – a Polish citizen with right to vote in this election, who turns 21 years of age, no later than on election day;

2)       for election to the Senate - a Polish citizen with right to vote in this election, who turns 30 years of age, no later than on election day;

3)       the election of the President of the Republic of Poland – a Polish citizen who turns 35 years of age, no later than on election day and enjoys full voting rights to the Sejm;

4)       in the European Parliament elections in the Republic of Poland - a person who turns 21 years of age, no later than on election day, and for at least 5 years has been a permanent resident in the Republic of Poland or the territory of other European Union Member State;

5)       in elections to bodies representing local government entities – any person who has the right to vote in the elections of these bodies;

6)       in the elections for the mayor - a Polish citizen with a right to vote in this election, who turn 25 years of age, no later than on election day, however, without the necessity of having permanent domicile in the municipality in which he or she is a candidate.

2. The following persons do not enjoy the right to be elected:

1)       person convicted to imprisonment for an intentional offense subject to public prosecution or intentional fiscal offense. In the case of elections referred to in § 1 point 6, convicted by a final judgment of a court for an intentional offense subject to public prosecution or an intentional fiscal offense;

2)       person who are the subject of a final court decision which deprives of the right to be elected, referred to in art. 21a. par 2a of the Act of 18 October 2006 on dissemination of information on documents of state security bodies from the years 1944-1990 and the contents of these documents (Journal of Laws of 2007 No. 63, item. 425, as amended).

3. The right to be elected is not enjoyed by a citizen of the European Union who has been deprived of the right to be elected in one of European Union states of which he or she is a citizen.

4. The right to be elected in a given municipality is not enjoyed by a person who was previously elected twice for the mayor in that municipality, in elections ordered pursuant to art.  474 § 1.