30.1. The purposes of the Institute are:

a) To contribute to the development of the democratic life;

b) To maintain the strengthening of the regime of political parties;

c) To integrate the Federal Register of Voters;

d) To ensure that the citizens can exercise their political-electoral rights and to monitor the compliance with their obligations;

e) To guarantee that the elections to renew the members of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Union are held regularly and peacefully, as well as to exercise the functions entrusted to it by the Constitution in the local electoral processes;

f) To ensure the authenticity and effectiveness of the vote;

g) To promote the vote and contribute to the dissemination of civic education and democratic culture, and

h) To act as the only authority for the administration of the State airtime in radio and television earmarked for the purposes of the Institute, for those of the other electoral authorities and for guaranteeing the exercise of the rights given by the Constitution to the political parties in this matter.

30.2. All the activities of the Institute will be governed by the principles of certainty, legality, independence, impartiality, maximum publicity and objectivity.

30.3. For the performance of their activities, the Institute and the Local Public Bodies will have a group of public servants in their executive and technical bodies, integrated in a National Professional Electoral Service governed by the Statute approved by the General Council for this purpose. The National Professional Electoral Service will have two systems, one for the Institute and another for the Local Public Bodies, which will contain the respective mechanism for selection, entry, training, professionalization, promotion, evaluation, rotation, permanence and discipline, as well as the general catalogue of the of f ces and positions of the executive and technical staff. The Institute will regulate the organization and functioning of this Service, and will exercise control over it. The Institute will exercise control over the System and regulate its organization, functioning and the application of the mechanisms referred to in this article.

30.4. In addition, the Institute will have staff assigned to an administrative branch for the optimal performance of the institutional activities, which will be governed by the statute referred to in the previous paragraph.