General Right to Vote
Constitution
(2006)

• Article 3 states, “The Suffrage may be direct or indirect, in the manner provided by law. It is always universal, equal and secret.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
1987 Law on Communal Power

• Article 96 states, “Cannot be registered on the electoral roll...4. People who do not enjoy all their mental faculties.”

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law
Law on elections of deputies to the National Assembly
(1991, as amended 2001)

• Article 14 states, “Candidates are required to make a statement and affix their signature to it.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Decree laying down the laws of election and voting
(1986)

• Article 25 states, “Every voter suffering from infirmities that make it impossible to put the ballot in the envelope and slide it into the ballot box is allowed assistance by an elector of his choice.”

Decree laying down the course of the election and specifying the practical organization of Senate elections
(1991)

• Article 18 states, “Every voter suffering from infirmities that make it impossible to execute the operation of voting is allowed assistance by an elector of their choice.”

Decree laying down the course of election and specifying the practical organization of elections to the National Assembly
(1991)

• Article 37 repeats article 25 of the 1986 law.

• Constitution - http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un-dpadm/unpan042393.pdf
• Electoral Laws - http://www.onecrim.org/docjcc/Jo/IPLP.pdf
• 1986 electoral law begins on page 100.
• 1991 Decree laying down the course of the election and specifying the practical organization of Senate elections begins on page 53.
• 1991 Law on elections of deputies to the National Assembly begins on page 57.
• 1991 Decree laying down the course of election and specifying the practical organization of elections to the National Assembly begins on page 64
• 1987 Law regarding communal elections begins on page 76.