Laos

Population Statistics

6,911,544

Total Population

1,036,732

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

25 September 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (1991, last amended 2003)

Updated: June 2015

Article 36 states:

Lao citizens aged eighteen years and above have the right to vote and those aged twenty years and above have the right to be elected, except insane persons, persons with mental disorders and persons whose rights to vote and to be elected have been revoked by a court.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1991, last amended 2003) 

Law on the Election of Members of the National Assembly (2001)

Updated: June 2015

Article 4 states:

People who have no right to vote, nor to be elected are the following:

(1) The insane, and the mad…

 

Excerpt from the Law on the Election of Members of the National Assembly (2001)