Suriname

Table of Contents:

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

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Article 57, paragraph 1 states:

The members of the National Assembly shall be elected directly by the inhabitants having Suriname nationality and having reached the age of eighteen years.

 

Article 59 states:

Eligible are the inhabitants who have Suriname nationality, who have reached the age of twenty-one and have not been deprived of the right to vote on the grounds mentioned in the previous article under (a) and (c).

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Suriname (1987, last amended 1992)

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Article 58 states:

Those persons shall be debarred from exercising the right to vote:…

• (c) Who, by virtue of an irrevocable judicial decision, have lost the right to dispose of or administer their property on account of insanity or imbecility.

 

Article 68, paragraph 1 states:

Membership of the National Assembly is terminated by:…

• (d) The arising of conditions that exclude eligibility…

 

Article 92, paragraph 1 states:

To be eligible for appointment as President or Vice-President a candidate must:…not be excluded from the right of active and passive suffrage…

 

Article 98 states:

The office of the President is exercised by the Vice-President:

• (a) In case the President is declared unfit to exercise his powers…

 

Article 142, paragraph 2 states:

The persons mentioned in the first paragraph [member of the Judicial Power and the Attorney-General] may be discharged on the proposal of the Court of Justice:…in case of proven continuous mental disorder…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Suriname (1987, last amended 1992)

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Article 68, paragraph 1 states:

Membership of the National Assembly is terminated by:…

• (d) The arising of conditions that exclude eligibility…

 

Article 92, paragraph 1 states:

To be eligible for appointment as President or Vice-President a candidate must:…not be excluded from the right of active and passive suffrage…

 

Article 98 states:

The office of the President is exercised by the Vice-President:

• (a) In case the President is declared unfit to exercise his powers…

 

Article 142, paragraph 2 states:

The persons mentioned in the first paragraph [member of the Judicial Power and the Attorney-General] may be discharged on the proposal of the Court of Justice:…in case of proven continuous mental disorder…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Suriname (1987, last amended 1992)