Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2025
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 57 states:
Any voter with an infirmity making it impossible to affix his fingerprint to the insignia of the party or list of independent candidates of their choice, or to deposit the ballot in the ballot box, is allowed to have a qualified person of his choice to assist him.
Article 156 states:
The mandate of Deputy and that of Senator ends by the death, the resignation, the permanent incapacity and the unjustified absence in more than one-quarter of the sittings [séances] of a session or when the Deputy or the Senator falls into one of the cases of forfeiture specified by an organic law.
Article 212 states:
A Magistrate may only be dismissed for [a] professional fault or incompetence, and only by [a] proposal of the Superior Council of the Magistrature.
Article 266 states:
For the first elections, every Communal Council elects within it a Communal administrator and may remove him from his functions for a valid reason, such as corruption, incompetence, grave fault or diversion of funds. For the following elections, the National Assembly and the Senate may, after evaluation, legislate [that] the Administrator should be elected by universal direct suffrage…