Eligibility for election
(1) All men and women who are Austrian citizens on the qualifying date, have reached the age of 18 by the day of the election and have not been convicted by a final judgment by an Austrian court for a criminal offence or several criminal offences committed with intent and sentenced to imprisonment for more than one year are eligible to be elected. The exclusion from the eligibility to be elected ends after six months. The period begins as soon as the sentence has been completed and any precautionary measures involving the deprivation of liberty have been carried out or lifted; if the sentence has only been served as time spent in pre-trial custody, the period begins when the judgment becomes final.
(2) If legal consequences are excluded from coming into force on the basis of other statutory provisions, if the legal consequences have expired or if all legal consequences for the person convicted have been suspended, the person convicted is not excluded from the eligibility to be elected. Furthermore, the eligibility to be elected is also not excluded if the court conditionally suspended the sentence. If the conditional suspension is revoked, the eligibility to be elected is excluded as of the day on which the respective decision becomes final.