Article 38 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

The rights or prerogatives of citizens are suspended:

I.By failure to comply, without justified cause, with any of the obligations imposed by article 36. This suspension shall last one year and shall be imposed in addition to the other penalties that the law provides for the same act;

II.By being subject to a criminal proceeding for a crime that merits a corporal penalty, counting from the date of the order of formal imprisonment;

III.During the serving of a corporal penalty;

IV.By vagrancy or habitual drunkenness, declared in the terms provided by the laws;

V.By being a fugitive from justice, from the time the arrest warrant is issued until the criminal action prescribes;

VI.By a final judgment (sentencia) that imposes that suspension as a penalty, and

VII.By having a final judgment for the intentional commission of crimes against life and corporal integrity; against sexual freedom and security, normal psychosexual development; for family violence, equivalent family violence or domestic violence, violation of sexual intimacy; for political violence against women on the basis of gender, in any of its modalities and types.

By being declared a person in arrears in alimony obligations.

In the cases of this section, the person may not be registered as a candidate for any position of popular election, nor be appointed to an employment, position or commission in the public service.

The law shall establish the cases in which the rights of citizen are lost, and the others in which they are suspended, and the manner of carrying out the rehabilitation.