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Article 238
 

238.1. The candidate registration request should indicate the political party or coalition which nominates the candidates and the following information about the candidates:


a) The paternal surname, maternal surname and complete name;


b) The place and date of birth;


c) The address and time of residence there;


d) The occupation;


e) The code of the voter card;


f) The office that they are nominated for, and 


g) The candidates for the Chambers of the Congress of the Union and of the Congresses of the States that seek reelection should add a letter specifying the period for which they have been elected for this office and the avowal of complying with the limits established by the Constitution regarding reelection.


238.2. The request must be accompanied by the declaration of acceptance of the candidacy, a copy of the birth certificate and of the front and back of the voter card.


238.3. Likewise, the nominating political party should express in writing that the candidates whose registration it is requesting were selected in accordance with the statutory rules of the political party.


238.4. The request of each political party for the registration of the complete lists of candidates for representatives by the principle of proportional representation for the five multi-member regional districts should also be accompanied, besides by the documents referred to in the previous paragraphs, by the registration certificate of at least 200 candidatures for representatives by the principle of plurality, which could be accredited with the ones registered by the own party and, where applicable, the ones which correspond to the partial or f exible coalition to which it belongs.


238.5. The request of each political party for the registration of the national list of candidates for senators by the principle of proportional representation for the national multi-member district should also be accompanied, besides by the documents referred to in the previous paragraphs, by the registration certificate of at least 21 lists with two formulas per state of the candidates for senators by the principle of plurality, which could be accredited with the ones registered by the own party and, where applicable, the ones which correspond to the partial or flexible coalition to which it belongs.


238.6. The request for registration of the lists of proportional representation referred to in the two previous paragraphs should specify which of the members of each list are aiming for reelection in their offices and the consecutive number of times they have held the same office.


238.7. For the registration of coalition candidates it should be certified that the provisions of the General Law on Political Parties and the provisions of this Law were complied with, in accordance with the election in question.