Aruba

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability

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Article 1, section (2) states:

Every person with Dutch nationality shall be equally eligible for appointment to public office.

Article 1, section (10) states:

Every person with Dutch nationality resident in Aruba shall have an equal right to elect the members of the general representative bodies and to stand for election as a member of those bodies, subject to limitations prescribed by Country Ordinance.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Aruba (1985)

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Article 3, section (5), subsection (2) states:

The following persons shall not be entitled to vote…

• (b) anyone who has been deemed legally incompetent by irrevocable judgment of a court of law because of mental disorder.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of Aruba (1985)