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Mozambique
General Right to
Vote
Constitution:
(1990)
Article 107 states, "(1) Representative organs shall be chosen
through elections in which all citizens shall have the right to participate.
(2) The election of representative organs shall take place through universal,
direct, secret, personal and periodic vote."
Specific Inclusion
of People with Disabilities
Constitution:
(1990)
Article 68 states: "Disabled citizens shall enjoy fully the
rights enshrined in the Constitution and shall be subject to the same
duties, with the exclusion of those rights and duties which their disability
prevents them from undertaking."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(1993)
Article 10, section (1) states: "Shall be electors the Mozambican
citizens of both sexes, who at the date of the elections are aged 18 years
or over, and who are regularly registered as electors and not affected
by any of the incapacities mentioned in the present law."
Article 12 states: "No person can be an elector, who
(b)
is commonly known to be insane, even though s/he may not have been disqualified
by any sentence, or is interned in a psychiatric institution or has been
declared insane by a medical board."
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1993)
Article 141, section (1) states: "Blind and unmistakably ill
or physically disabled voters, of whom the polling station board verifies
that they are unable to perform the acts described in the preceding article,
shall vote accompanied by another voter of their own choice, who must
guarantee the faithful expression of their vote and who shall be pledged
to absolute secrecy."
Article 141, section (2) states: "If the polling station board
is of the opinion that the illness or other physical disability cannot
be verified beyond doubt, it shall demand, at the moment of voting, a
document issued by the competent body, attesting to the impossibility
of the performance of the acts described in the preceding article."
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