Hungary

Population Statistics

9,897,541

Total Population

1,484,631

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

20 July 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Updated: June 2015

Chapter I, section 3, subsection (1) states:

'Voter with a disability' shall mean a voter who has limited or no sensorial abilities (especially vision and hearing) or limited or no musculoskeletal abilities or mental capacity, or who has considerably limited communication abilities, and this places him or her at a lasting disadvantage when it comes to actively participating in public life…

 

Chapter I, section 13/A states:

(1) Courts shall decide on exclusion from suffrage in decisions ordering placement under conservatorship limiting competency...

(2) Courts shall exclude persons of legal adult age from suffrage whose capacity for reasoning necessary for exercising suffrage

  • (a) is greatly reduced permanently or recurrently owing to their mental state, unsound mind or pathological addiction; or
  • (b) is permanently and completely lost owing to their mental state or unsound mind.

 

Chapter III, section 62, subsection (5) states:

Deputy Presidents shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the President if the President is unable to do so or the position of the President is vacant.

 

Chapter III, section 65 states:

… (4) The President of the National Election Office shall dismiss the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she is unable to discharge his or her duties for reasons beyond his or her control for more than ninety days.

(5) The President of the National Election Office may dismiss Deputy Presidents of the National Election Office.

(6) The President of the National Election Office shall remove from office the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she fails to discharge his or her duties for reasons within his or her control for more than ninety days or intentionally states untrue data or facts of importance in a financial disclosure statement.

(7) The failure of a Deputy President of the National Election Office to meet the requirements for appointment shall be determined by the President of the National Election Office.

 

Chapter V, section 85, subsection (1) states:

[Voters] may request that…b) their request for assistance in voting…be listed in the central electoral register.

 

Chapter VI, section 102, subsection (3) states:

Voters who requested an accessible polling station…if the polling station assigned to them based on their address is not accessible – shall be moved by the local election office to the register of a polling district in the same settlement and constituency that has an accessible polling station.

 

Chapter XI, section 179, subsection (2) states:

If the voter cannot write, the register shall be signed by two members of the polling station commission and this fact shall be noted in the register.

 

Excerpts from Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Fundamental Law of Hungary (2011, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article 12, section 3 states:

The mandate of the President of the Republic shall terminate:…

  • (c) if he or she is incapable of performing his or her functions for over ninety days…

 

Closing and Miscellaneous Provisions, section (24), subsection (2) states:

Anyone under guardianship restricting or excluding his or her capacity to act under a final judgement at the entry into force of the Fundamental Law shall not have the right to vote and to be voted for until such guardianship is terminated or until a court establishes the existence of his or the right to vote and to be voted for.

 

Excerpts from the Fundamental Law of Hungary (2011, last amended 2013)