Andorra

Population Statistics

85,580

Total Population

12,837

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

11 March 2014

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Principality of Andorra (1993)

Updated: June 2015

Article 77 states:

The Government ceases with the dissolution of the legislature, with the resignation, death or permanent disability of the Head of Government, with the approval of a motion of censure or the lack of assent in a motion of confidence. In all such cases the Government shall continue its functions until a new Government is formed.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Principality of Andorra (1993)

Qualified Law on Electoral System and Referendum (2007)

Updated: June 2015

Article 1 states:

(2) The right to vote belongs to all Andorrans, of the legal age of majority, who possess the full use of their civil and political rights.

(3) The following have no right to vote: …

(b) Those declared incapable by final court decision, provided said decision expressly declares the inability to exercise the right to vote.

 

Article 15 states:

All Andorrans of legal age of majority, in the full exercise of their civil and political rights, registered on election lists and provided they do not fall to any cause of ineligibility, are eligible.

 

Article 25 states:

If a candidate loses the right to stand for election by final court decision, communicated to the Government or the consuls, by death or disability, during the day established for elections, he/she shall be replaced by the following candidate in the list, without having to amend the ballot papers.

 

Excerpts from the Qualified Law on Electoral System and Referendum (2007)