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Article 100
 

100.1. The President Councilor and the Electoral Councilors of the Local Public Bodies will be appointed by the General Council of the Institute for a period of seven years, according to the procedure established by this Law.


100.2. The requirements to be a local electoral councilor are the following:


a) To be a Mexican citizen by birth and to not to have obtained any other nationality, in addition to being in full possession and exercise of the civil and political rights;


b) To be registered in the Federal Register of Voters and to have a valid voter card;


c) To be more than thirty years old on the day of the appointment;


d) To have held a bachelor’s degree for a minimum of f ve years on the day of the appointment;


e) To have a good reputation and to never have been sentenced for any crime, except if it was of an unintentional or reckless nature;


f) To come from the corresponding state and to have had an actual residence there for at least the last five years before the appointment, except in the case of absence due to public, educational or research service 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, state or municipal management position in any political party in the last four years before the appointment;


i) To not have been banned from holding public office in any federal or local public institution;


j) To not have been head of a ministry or of a department of the legal or extended cabinet 7 of the federal or of a state government, nor sub-secretary or high of f cial in the public administration at any level of government during the last four years before the appointment. To not be Chief of Government of the Federal District, or Governor, or Government Secretary or the equivalent at the local level. To not be Municipal President, administrator or councilor or head of department of the city councils, and


k) To not be or to have been a member of the National Professional Electoral Service during the last federal electoral process in the entity.


100.3. In the event that there is a local electoral councilor vacancy, the General Council will make the corresponding appointment in accordance with the provisions of this Law.


100.4. After completing their office, they cannot assume public office in the bodies arising from the elections in the organization and development of which they participated, nor be nominated for an elective office or assume a position of party management, during the two years following the end of their office.