1. The following cannot make contributions or donations in cash or in kind to the political parties or to the applicants, pre-candidates or candidates for elective off ces, personally or through a third party, under any circumstances:

a) The Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of the Federation and of the states, and the city councils, expect for in the case of the public financing established in the Constitution and this Law;

b) The departments, entities or bodies of the Federal, state or municipal public administration, centralized or parastatal, and the government bodies of the Federal District;

c) The federal and state autonomous bodies, or those of the Federal District;

d) Foreign political parties, natural persons or legal persons

e) International bodies of any kind;

f) Legal persons, and

g) Persons that live or work abroad.

2. The political parties cannot request credits from development banks for the financing of their activities.