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 299 states:
The vote will be secret. Persons who are obviously blind and those who are physically unable to act without assistance may be accompanied by persons whom they trust.

 

Article 300 states:
…The presiding returning officer will make provision for anything that may be needed to give priority to…persons who are ill or physically disabled…who shall vote without queuing.

 

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