Argentina

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Section 37 states:

This Constitution guarantees the full exercise of political rights, in accordance with the principle of popular sovereignty and with the laws derived there from. Suffrage shall be universal, equal, secret and compulsory.

 

Section 75 states:

Congress is empowered…

• (23) To legislate and promote protective measures guaranteeing true equal opportunities and treatment, the full benefit and exercise of the rights recognized by this Constitution and by the international treaties on human rights in force, particularly referring to…disabled persons.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Argentina (1853, last amended 1994)

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Section 66 states:

Each House shall make its rules of proceedings, and with the concurrence of two-thirds may correct any one of its members…or can remove him on the account of physical or moral disability occurring after his admission, and may even expel him from the body…

 

Section 88 states:

In case of illness…the Executive Power shall devolve upon the Vice-President of the Nation. In case of…inability of the President, and the Vice-President of the Nation, Congress shall determine the public officer…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Argentina (1853, last amended 1994)

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Section 66 states:

Each House shall make its rules of proceedings, and with the concurrence of two-thirds may correct any one of its members…or can remove him on the account of physical or moral disability occurring after his admission, and may even expel him from the body…

 

Section 88 states:

In case of illness…the Executive Power shall devolve upon the Vice-President of the Nation. In case of…inability of the President, and the Vice-President of the Nation, Congress shall determine the public officer…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Argentina (1853, last amended 1994)