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(4) The following cannot belong to the Constitutional Court: members of the Federal Government or a Land Government, furthermore members of the National Council, the Federal Council, or any other popular representative body; for members of these representative bodies who have been elected for a fixed term of legislation or office such incompatibility continues until the expiry of that term of legislation or office. Finally persons who are in the employ of or hold office in a political party cannot belong to the Constitutional Court.