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Guatemala

General Right to Vote
Constitution:
• See article 136

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(1990)
• Article 15 states: "Persons who may not exercise the right to vote are…(b) those persons who have been suspended from exercising their rights as citizens…"

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law:
(source: IPU)
• Requirement for standing for office: literacy


 
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