Qualifications and disqualifications

Qualifications and disqualifications for nomination as presidential candidate (1) A person qualifies to be nominated as a candidate for election as President if that person— (a) is a citizen by birth or descent; (b) has been ordinarily resident in Zambia; (c) is at least thirty-five years old; (d) is a registered voter; (e) has obtained, as a minimum academic qualification, a grade twelve certificate or its equivalent; (f) is fluent in the official language; (g) has paid that person’s taxes or has made arrangements, satisfactory to the appropriate tax authority, for the payment of the taxes; (h) declares that person’s assets and liabilities, as prescribed; (i) pays the prescribed election fee on, or before, the date fixed for the delivery of nomination papers; and (j) is supported by at least one hundred registered voters from each Province. (2) A person is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate for election as President if that person— (a) is a public officer; (b) has dual citizenship; (c) is holding or acting in a Constitutional office or other public office; (d) is a judge or judicial officer; (e) was removed from public office on grounds of gross misconduct in the immediate preceding five years; (f) has a mental or physical disability that would make the person incapable of performing the executive functions; (g) is an undischarged bankrupt; (h) is serving a sentence of imprisonment; or (i) has, in the immediate preceding five years, served a term of imprisonment of at least three years.