Article 82 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

To be President, the following is required:

I.Being a Mexican citizen by birth, in full enjoyment of his rights, the child of a Mexican father or mother and having resided in the country for at least twenty years.

II.Being 35 years of age at the time of the election;

III.Having resided in the country during the entire year prior to the day of the election. Absence from the country for up to thirty days does not interrupt residence.

IV.Not belonging to the ecclesiastical state nor being a minister of any religion.

V.Not being in active service, in case of belonging to the Army, Air Force, Navy and National Guard, six months before the day of the election.

VI.Not being the head of a Secretariat of State or Undersecretariat, or of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, or of the executive power of any state (federal entity), unless he separates from his post six months before the day of the election;

VII.Not being included in any of the impediments provided in article 83 of this Constitution, and

VIII.Not having or having had in the last three years prior to the day of the election a bond of marriage or concubinage or de facto union, or of kinship by consanguinity or civil in the direct line without limitation of degree and in the collateral line up to the fourth degree or by affinity up to the second degree, with the person who is exercising the office of the Federal Executive.