Armenia

Population Statistics

3,056,382

Total Population

458,457

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

22 September 2010

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia (2016)

Updated: January 2017

Article 2, part (4) states:

Persons lacking active legal capacity as declared by a civil judgment of a court having entered into force, as well as persons sentenced by a criminal judgment having entered into force and serving a punishment for grave and particularly grave offences, committed intentionally, do not have the right to elect.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia (2016)

 

 

Constitution of the Republic of Armenia (2016)

Updated: January 2017

Article 48, part (4) states:

Persons declared as legally incapable by a court judgment that has entered into legal force, as well as persons convicted and serving sentence for the intentional commission of a grave crime by a court judgment that has entered into legal force may not vote and be elected, as well as take part in a referendum. Citizens convicted and serving a sentence for other crimes under a court judgment that has entered into legal force, shall not have the right to be elected.

 

Article 98.1 states:


The powers of a parliamentarian shall lapse upon...entry into legal force of a judgment declaring him as legally incapable,...

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia (2016)