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Article 6
 

Special ineligibilities


1 - Directors and heads of tax offices and ministers of any religion or form of worship who possess jurisdictional powers may not be candidates for the constituency in which they exercise that activity.
2 - Portuguese citizens who have another nationality cannot be candidates for the constituency that includes territory of the country to which that nationality pertains, when they hold political office or high public office equivalent to them in the bodies of the State concerned, according to the criterion of Portuguese law.