Article 95 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

To be elected minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the following is required:

I.Being a Mexican citizen by birth, in full exercise of his political and civil rights.

II.Repealed

III.Possessing on the day of the publication of the call indicated in section I of article 96 of this Constitution a professional degree as a bachelor of law legally issued, a general grade point average of at least eight points or its equivalent and of nine points or its equivalent in the subjects related to the office to which he is nominated in the bachelor's degree, specialty, master's or doctorate, and professional practice of at least five years in the exercise of the legal activity;

IV.Enjoying a good reputation and not having been condemned for a crime that merits a corporal penalty of more than one year of imprisonment; but if it concerns robbery, fraud, falsification, breach of trust and another that seriously damages the good fame in the public concept, it shall disqualify for the office, whatever the penalty may have been.

V.Having resided in the country during the two years prior to the day of the publication of the call indicated in section I of article 96 of this Constitution; and

VI.Not having been Secretary of State, Attorney General of the Republic, senator, federal deputy, nor head of the executive power of any state (federal entity), during the year prior to the day of the publication of the call indicated in section I of article 96 of this Constitution.