Mauritania

Table of Contents:

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

Article 3 states:

The suffrage can be direct or indirect, in the conditions specified by the law. It is always universal, equal, and secret. All the citizens of the Republic, of majority of both sexes, enjoying their civil and political rights, are electors.

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1991, last amended 2012)

Article 26 states:

Every citizen born Mauritanian enjoying their civil and political rights … is eligible to the Presidency of the Republic

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1991, last amended 2012)

Article 26 states:

Every citizen born Mauritanian enjoying their civil and political rights … is eligible to the Presidency of the Republic

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1991, last amende 2012)