Burkina Faso

Table of Contents:

• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 44 states:
Should not be registered to the voter lists...

• (3) Individuals who are legally incapacitated [by an illness, a disability or deterioration as an effect of age];
• (4) Those who have been stripped of their civic and political rights.

 

Article 209 states:

Cannot be elected provincial councilors...persons deprived of voting rights.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2001, last amended 2012)

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Article 91 states:

Any elector with a disability or physical handicap which makes it impossible for him to express his choice and to place his ballot in the ballot box is authorized to be assisted by an elector of his choice or by a polling station official.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2001, last amended 2012)

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Article 134 states:

Any Burkinan who is qualified as an elector is eligible for election to the President of Burkina Faso...

 

Article 162 states:

All citizens who are qualified electors may be elected to the National Assembly...

 

Article 209 states:

Cannot be elected provincial councilors...persons deprived of voting rights.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2001, last amended 2012)