Mexico

Population Statistics

121,736,809

Total Population

18,260,521

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

17 December 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (1917, amended 2005)

Updated: June 2015

Article 1 states:

…Discrimination based on…disabilities of any kind…or on any other reason which attempts against human dignity and which is directed to either cancel or restrain the individuals’ privileges and immunities, shall be prohibited.

 

Excerpt from the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (1917, last amended 2005)

Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (2008, last amended 2012)

Updated: June 2015

Article 4 states:

(1) To vote in the elections constitutes a right and an obligation of the citizen that is to be exercised in order to form the State governmental organs of popular election.

(2) The vote is universal, free, secret, direct, personal, and non-transferable.

(3) Any action prohibiting the voter from voting is illegal.

 

Excerpt from the Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (2008, last amended 2012)