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Tonga
Electoral law
unavailable for review
General Right to
Vote
Constitution:
(updated, 1990)
Section 64 states: "Every Tongan subject of twenty-one years
of age or more
being a male or female can read and write and is not
insane or imbecile and is not disabled by the twenty-third clause shall
be entitled to vote in an election for representatives of the people to
the Legislative Assembly."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(updated, 1990)
Section 35 states: "No person shall succeed to the Crown of
Tonga who has been found guilty of a felony or who is insane or imbecile."
Section 63, subsection (1) states, "No person shall succeed
to the position of a noble who is insane or imbecile or who is disabled
by the twenty-third clause."
Section 64 states: "Every Tongan subject of twenty-one years
of age or more
being a male or female can read and write and is not
insane or imbecile and is not disabled by the twenty-third clause shall
be entitled to vote in an election for representatives of the people to
the Legislative Assembly."
Exclusion Based
on Physical Disability
Constitution:
(updated, 1990)
Section 64 states: "Every Tongan subject of twenty-one years
of age or more
being a male or female can read and write and is not
insane or imbecile and is not disabled by the twenty-third clause shall
be entitled to vote in an election for representatives of the people to
the Legislative Assembly."
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