Mozambique

Law 8/2013 (2013)

Updated: June 2015

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Article 3 states:

The president of the Republic and the deputies of the House of Assembly are elected by Universal suffrage, direct, equal, secret, personal and periodical by the Mozambican citizens in terms of this present law.

 

Article 4 states:

The suffrage constitutes an individual and inalienable right for a citizen.

 

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Article 10, section 1 states:

Shall be electors the Mozambican citizens of both sexes, who at the date of the elections are aged 18 years or over, and who are regularly registered as electors and not affected by any of the incapacities mentioned in the present law.

 

Article 12 states:

Non-voters are as follows...

(b) Those notably recognized as demented, even if not interdicted by justice, when psychotic or declared so by a Medical Council.

 

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Article 72, section 3 states:

The Chairmen of the Polling Station will prioritize the following voters...

(d) Disabled people...

 

Article 75 states:

(1) The blind and the disabled confirmed by the polling officers as incapable to vote, as described in the previous article, shall practice their voting right if accompanied by another voter freely chosen by himself, who can insure the voting secrecy.

(2) If the polling officers do not confirm an individual as disabled, he will request with the act of voting a document issued by the competent entity confirming the incapacity of this individual in practicing the acts referred to in the previous article.

 

Article 76 states:

Those who cannot read or write, incapable to make a cross in the blank square will vote by placing a fingers in the blank square or rectangular corresponding the candidate they chose, after pressing the fingers in the appropriated ink placed in the voting booth.

 

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