38.1. The Electoral Councilors should meet the following requirements:
a) To be Mexican citizens by birth and to not have obtained any other nationality, in addition to being in full possession and exercise of their civil and political rights;
b) To be registered in the Federal Register of Voters and to have a voter card;
c) To be over thirty years old on the day of the appointment;
d) To have held a bachelor’s degree for a minimum of five years on the day of the appointment and to have the knowledge and experience to carry out their functions;
e) To have a good reputation and never to have been sentenced for any crime, except if it was unintentional;
f) To have lived in the country during the last two years, except in the case of absence in the service of the Republic for a period of less than six months;
g) To not have been registered as a candidate, nor to have served in an elective office, in the last four years before the appointment;
h) To not hold nor to have held a national or state management position in any political party in the last four years before the appointment;
i) To not be Secretary of State, nor Attorney General of the Republic or Public District Attorney of any state, deputy secretary or senior official in the Federal or state Public Administration, Chief of Government of the Federal District, nor Governor or government secretary, unless they are removed from office four years before the day of the appointment, and
j) To not be nor to have been a member of the Professional Electoral Service, nor to be or to have been a member of the National Professional Electoral Service, during the last ordinary federal electoral process.
38.2. The Executive Secretary of the General Council should meet the same requirements that are established to become an Electoral Councilor, with the exception of the provisions of subparagraph j) of the previous paragraph.
38.3. The salary received by the President Councilor and the Electoral Councilors will comply with the provisions of Article 127 of the Constitution.
