Cuba

Table of Contents:

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

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Article 131 states:

All citizens with the legal capacity for doing so are entitled to intervene in the direction of the State, either directly or through their representatives elected to membership in the organs of the People’s Power; and for that purpose, to participate, in the manner provided in the law, in periodic elections and popular referendums, to be held with a free, equal, and secret ballot. Each voter is entitled to only one vote.

 

Article 132 states:

All Cubans 16 years of age and over, men and women alike, have the right to vote…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (1967, last amended 2002)

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Article 94 states:

In case of the absence, illness or death of the President of the Council of State, the First Vice President assumes the President’s duties.

 

Article 131 states:

All citizens with the legal capacity for doing so are entitled to intervene in the direction of the State, either directly or through their representatives elected to membership in the organs of the People’s Power; and for that purpose, to participate, in the manner provided in the law, in periodic elections and popular referendums, to be held with a free, equal, and secret ballot. Each voter is entitled to only one vote.

 

Article 132 states:

All Cubans 16 years of age and over, men and women alike, have the right to vote, except those who:

• (a) are mentally disabled and have been declared so by a court....

 

Article 133 states:

All Cuban citizens, men and women alike, who have full political rights can be elected.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (1967, last amended 2002)

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Article 94 states:

In case of the absence, illness or death of the President of the Council of State, the First Vice President assumes the President’s duties.

 

Article 133 states:

All Cuban citizens, men and women alike, who have full political rights can be elected.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (1967, last amended 2002)