Paraguay

Table of Contents:

• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 75 states:

The following persons may not be electors:

• (a) persons who are under legal interdiction; (b) deaf-mutes who cannot make themselves understood in writing or by any other means…

 

Article 78 states:

Exempt from the duty of suffrage are…

• (d) persons who are unable to attend their polling station due to illness, where that circumstance is provided by certificate issued by the authorities of the hospital at which they are treated…

 

Article 81 states:

Disqualifying factors to holding elective positions are…

• (g) incapacity declared in court, which prevents persons from acting freely and with discernment.

 

Article 88 states:

The following are requirements to become a member of the Central Electoral Council…

• (c) to be intellectually capable…

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (1994, last amended 2012))

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Article 210 states:

Electors shall vote in order of arrival, but the returning officer shall give priority to…persons suffering from illness…and disabled persons.

 

Article 220 states:

Persons who are unable, due to physical defect, to mark their ballots and insert them in the ballot box, may avail themselves, for these operations, of a person in whom they trust.

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (1994, last amended 2012)

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Article 81 states:

Disqualifying factors to holding elective positions are…

• (g) incapacity declared in court, which prevents persons from acting freely and with discernment.

 

Article 88 states:

The following are requirements to become a member of the Central Electoral Council…

• (c) to be intellectually capable…

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (1994, last amended 2012)