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Article 115
 

115.1. To be Electoral Justices the following requirements are demanded:


a) To be Mexican citizens by birth, in full possession and exercise of their political and civil rights;


b) To be at least thirty-five years old on the day of the appointment;


c) To have held a bachelor’s degree in law issued by an authority or institute legally entitled to do so for a minimum of ten years on the day of the appointment;


d) To have a good reputation and never to have been sentenced for any crime that merits a sentence of over a year in prison; but if it concerns theft, fraud, falsif cation, breach of trust or another that seriously damages the reputation in public opinion, this disqualifies the perpetrator from holding the office, independently of the punishment;


e) To have lived in the country and in the state in question during the last year before the day of the appointment;


f) To not have been governor, secretary, attorney, senator, federal or local representative in the state in question during the last four years before the appointment;


g) To have a voter card with photograph;


h) To have knowledge of electoral law;


i) To not hold or have held the off ce of president of the National Executive Committee or equivalent of a political party;


j) To not have been registered as a candidate, with the exception of independent candidates, for any elective off ce in the last four years before the appointment, and


k) To not hold or have held a national, state, district or municipal management position in any political party in the last six years before the appointment.