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Guatemala

General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1985, as amended 1993)

  • Article 136 states, “The following are the rights and duties of the citizen...(b) to vote and be elected.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
(1986, as amended 2006)

  • 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..."

 



 
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