Going further, you can also say "You must be XYZ active to be electable to ABC position." The US has this criteria in that a senator must be 30 years old and a resident of the state for such'n'such time, etc. That is a perfectly valid criteria and those who would complain are those who wouldn't be good members anyways.

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