Senegal

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 3 states:

…Suffrage can be direct or indirect. It is always universal, equal and secret. All Senegalese of both sexes, 18 years of age, enjoying their civil and political rights, are electors under the conditions determined by law.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Republic of Senegal (2001, last amended 2009)

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Article 3 states:

…Suffrage can be direct or indirect. It is always universal, equal and secret. All Senegalese of both sexes, 18 years of age, enjoying their civil and political rights, are electors under the conditions determined by law.

 

Article 28 states:

Any candidate for the Presidency of the Republic must be…enjoying their civil and political rights, and be at least 35 years of age on polling day. He must know how to fluently write, read and speak the official language.

 

Article 31 states:

…If the Presidency is vacant, by resignation, death or definitive impairment, a new election will be held within 60 days at least and 90 days at the most, after a finding of vacancy by the Constitutional Council.

 

Candidacy or holding office

 

Article 28 states:

Any candidate for the Presidency of the Republic must be…enjoying their civil and political rights, and be at least 35 years of age on polling day. He must know how to fluently write, read and speak the official language.

 

Article 31 states:

…If the Presidency is vacant, by resignation, death or definitive impairment, a new election will be held within 60 days at least and 90 days at the most, after a finding of vacancy by the Constitutional Council.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Senegal (2001, last amended 2009)

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Article 28 states:

 

Any candidate for the Presidency of the Republic must be…enjoying their civil and political rights, and be at least 35 years of age on polling day. He must know how to fluently write, read and speak the official language.

 

 

Article 31 states:

…If the Presidency is vacant, by resignation, death or definitive impairment, a new election will be held within 60 days at least and 90 days at the most, after a finding of vacancy by the Constitutional Council.

 

Candidacy or holding office

 

Article 28 states:

Any candidate for the Presidency of the Republic must be…enjoying their civil and political rights, and be at least 35 years of age on polling day. He must know how to fluently write, read and speak the official language.

 

Article 31 states:

…If the Presidency is vacant, by resignation, death or definitive impairment, a new election will be held within 60 days at least and 90 days at the most, after a finding of vacancy by the Constitutional Council.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Senegal (2001, last amended 2009)