Constitución en Inglés

121 Corte Constitucional de Colombia Chapter VI Members of Congress T he following are not qualified to be members of Congress: 1. Those who have been sentenced at any time by judicial decision to a prison term, unless for political crimes or crimes of negligence. 2. Those who have exercised, as public employees, jurisdiction or political, civil, administrative, or military authority within twelve months prior to the date of the election. 3. Thosewhohaveparticipated inbusiness transactions of public entities, or have concluded contracts with them in their own interest or that of third parties, or have been the legal representatives of entities that administer taxes or quasi- fiscal levies, within six months prior to the date of the election. 4. Those who have lost their mandate as members of Congress. 5. Those who are related through marriage or de facto relationship or by kinship to the third degree of consanguinity or first degree of affinity, or by purely civil ties to officials who exercise civil or political authority. ARTICLE 179