Causes of disqualification from Congress of Deputies and Senate

1. Causes of ineligibility to Congress of Deputies and to Senate shall also be causes for disqualification.

2. The following persons are also disqualified:

a) The Chairman of the National Competition Commission;

b) Members of the Board of Directors (Consejo de Administración) of the Spanish Broadcasting and Television Corporation;

c) Members of the Prime Minister’s Executive Office (Gabinete de la Presidencia del Gobierno) and of the Executive Offic of each Minister or State-Secretary;

d) Government’s Representatives (Delegados del Gobierno) in Autonomous Ports, Hydrological District Authorities (Confederaciones Hidrográficas), Toll Motorways Concession Companies and the bodies referred to in the next paragraph;

e) Chairmen of the Board of Directors, members thereof, administrators, Directors-General, managers and holders of equivalent positions in public bodies, State monopolies and companies directly or indirectly controlled through a majority stake by a public identity, whatever its legal form, and of publicly funded Savings Banks, and

f) Members of Congress of Deputies and Senators elected as candidates proposed by parties or federations or coalitions of parties subsequently declared as illegal by a final court decision and those elected by electors’ groupings declared by a final court decision as related to a party already banned.

3. Nobody can simultaneously stand as candidate to Congress of Deputies and to Senate.

4. Senators appointed by Self-governing Communities, no matter whether they are or not members of the respective Legislative Assembly:

a) May only carry out such activities as they are expressly authorized to perform as Senators by the Constitution and by this Act, whatever their status by virtue of their appointment by the Self-governing Community.

b) May only receive their salary as senators, unless they expressly choose to receive their salary as members of the Legislative Assembly.

5. Where the cause for disqualification is that contemplated in subparagraph 2.b, susbsection 4 of Section 6 of this Act shall apply.

 2 A), 2 B) AND 2 D) AS AMENDED BY SECT. 50 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28
 2 F) ADDED BY SECT. 7 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 3/2011, OF JANUARY 28
 4 ADDED BY SECT. 53 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13
 5 ADDED BY SECT. 8 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 3/2011, OF JANUARY 28