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ARTICLE 7
 

Impediments for being members


The following people cannot be members of electoral organizations:


a) Officials and employees referred to in the second paragraph of Article 146 of this Act, except for officials of the Civil Registry, and TSE officials and justices.


b) Spouses, siblings, parents, children, and domestic partners, in the same electoral body, at the same time.


c) Spouses, siblings, and ascendants or descendants, up to third degree of consanguinity or affinity, of the candidates whose results are to be announced by the TSE cannot be members of said Electoral Tribunal. However; if any candidacy leading to the aforementioned incompatibility emerges once the Tribunal has already been constituted, the affected sitting member must recuse from participating in the election process from that moment on without prejudice to the right of this person to their compensation. When the affected member is a permanent justice of the Tribunal, the disqualification shall cease after the declaration of the election result.