Eritrea

Table of Contents:

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

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Article 7, section 1 states:

It is a fundamental principle of the State of Eritrea to guarantee its citizens broad and active participation in all political, economic, social and cultural life of the country.

 

Article 20 states:

Every citizen who fulfills the requirements of the electoral law shall have the right to vote and to seek elective office.

 

Article 30, section 1 states:

All Eritrean citizens, of eighteen years of age or more, shall have the right to vote.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Eritrea (1997)

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Article 41, section 6 states:

The President may be removed from office by two-thirds majority vote of all members of the National Assembly for the following reasons:…

• (c) being incapable of performing the functions of his office by reason of physical or mental incapacity.

 

Article 52, section 1 states:

A judge may be removed from office before the expiry of his tenure of office by the President only acting on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, pursuant to the provisions of Sub-Article 2 of this Article for physical or mental incapacity.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Eritrea (1997)

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Article 20 states:

Every citizen who fulfills the requirements of the electoral law shall have the right to vote and to seek elective office.

 

Article 41, section 6 states:

The President may be removed from office by two-thirds majority vote of all members of the National Assembly for the following reasons:…

• (c) being incapable of performing the functions of his office by reason of physical or mental incapacity.

 

Article 52, section 1 states:

A judge may be removed from office before the expiry of his tenure of office by the President only acting on the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, pursuant to the provisions of Sub-Article 2 of this Article for physical or mental incapacity.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Eritrea (1997)