Panama

Population Statistics

3,657,024

Total Population

548,554

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

07 August 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Code (2007, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article 9 states:

The following persons may not exercise suffrage…

  • (4) persons subject to legal interdiction.

 

Article 299 states:

…Persons who are obviously blind and those who are physically unable to act without assistance may be accompanied by persons whom they trust.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2007, last amended 2013)