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Madagascar

General Right to Vote
Consitution
(2010)

  • Article 5 states, “Electors are, within the conditions determined by the law, all nationals of both genders benefitting from their civil and political rights. The status of an elector can only be lost by a definitive court decision.”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Law Regarding Disabled Persons
(1998)

  • Article 1 states, “This Act aims to ensure that all disabled people enjoy...rights to all citizens without distinction.”
  • Article 25 states, “The State encourages and ensures the provision of appropriate assistance to disabled persons.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Consitution
(2010)

  • Article 5 states, “Electors are, within the conditions determined by the law, all nationals of both genders benefitting from their civil and political rights. The status of an elector can only be lost by a definitive court decision.”

Electoral Law
Organic Law on the Electoral Code
(2010)

  • Article 3 states, “Are disenfranchised and are not therefore to be on the electoral list...4. The interdicted and the interned insane.”

Exclusion Based on Disability
Electoral Law
Organic Law on the Electoral Code
(2010)

  • Article 89 states, “Voting is personal and secret. It cannot be exercised by proxy or by correspondence.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Organice Law on the Electoral Code
(2010)

  • Article 98 states, “Any elector with a disability which makes it impossible for him to fill out his ballot and slip it into the ballot box is authorized to be assisted by an elector of his choice.”

Law Regarding Disabled Persons
(1998)

  • Article 24 states, “The State shall facilitate to the best of its ability disabled access to premises and public places, as well as transportation.”

 
 
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