Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 12 states:
The following persons do not enjoy active electoral capacity:…
(b) those notoriously recognized as demented when interned in a medical establishment or when so declared by a doctor’s certificate, even if not interdicted by a judgment…
Article 16 states:
(1) Angolan citizens who have full enjoyment of their civil and political rights and do not, as provided for by this law, suffer any form of general or special ineligibility, are eligible to vote.
(2) Only Angolans who are citizens by birth, are thirty-five years of age or older and have full enjoyment of their civil and political rights may be elected to the position of the President of the Republic…
Article 19 states:
Angolan citizens, who have active electoral capacity, with full enjoyment of their civil and political and not subject to any general or special ineligibility, are eligible for election as a Deputy to the National Assembly.
Article 32, clause 3 states:
In case of the death, illness or other reason that causes a physical impossibility for the exercise of the mandate, the seat shall be attributed to the next immediate candidate on the list in accordance with the order of precedence referred to in paragraph 1.
Article 36, clause 1 states:
The temporary substitution of the holder of the seat in the National Assembly shall be allowed where the vacancy results from one of the following circumstances: …
Article 66 states:
The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Tribunal shall, within twenty-four hours of having official notice of the withdrawal , incapacity or death of a candidate, communicate the matter to the National Election Commission and within the same period, cause the withdrawal, incapacity or death of a candidate to be published in the Third Series of the Government Gazette (Diário of the Republic) and to set out in an edict affixed to the door of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Article 67, clause 1 states:
In case of the death of any candidate or the occurrence of any fact that results in the incapacity of the candidate… the fact shall be communicated to the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Tribunal… with an indication of the intention to substitute or not the candidate…
Article 69 states:
Parliamentary candidates may be substituted up to fifteen days before the parliamentary elections, except in the following cases:…
Article 104, clause 3 states:
The officials must know how to read and write Portuguese…
Article 104, clause 5 states:
The performance of the duties of the officials of the Polling Station is obligatory unless justified by one of the following grounds or other just cause:…
Article 112, clause 1 states:
To exercise the right to vote, a citizen voter must be present and do so personally.
Article 110, clause 1 states:
Citizens of Angolan origin aged at least thirty-five who…are in full possession of their civil and political rights and physical and mental capacities shall be eligible for election as President of the Republic.
Article 129, clause 1 states:
The President of the Republic may be removed from office in the following circumstances…
Article 130, clause 1 states:
The office of the President of the Republic shall become vacant in the following circumstances:…
Article 131, clause 2 states:
The Vice-President shall substitute the President of the Republic when he is absent from the country, unable to perform his duties and in any situations in which he is temporarily unable to perform his functions and they shall, in these circumstances, be responsible for the daily management of executive functions.
Article 132 states:
(1) If the office of the elected President of the Republic elect becomes vacant, the duties shall be performed by the Vice-President, who shall complete the term of office with full powers.
(2) Should the situation referred to in the previous point arise or should the office of Vice-President become vacant, the President of the Republic shall appoint an individual elected to Parliament by the list of the political party or coalition of political parties which receives the most votes to perform the duties of the Vice-President, having consulted the political party or coalition of parties which presented the candidate for President of the Republic, under the terms of Articles 109 and 142 onwards of this Constitution.
(3) Should both the President of the Republic and the Vice-President become permanently and simultaneously unable to perform their duties, the President of the National Assembly shall assume the duties of the President of the Republic until new general elections are held, which must happen within one hundred and twenty days of verification of their inability to serve.
(4) Should the President of the Republic elect become permanently unable to perform his duties before his inauguration, he shall be replaced by the Vice-President elect, and a substitute Vice-President shall be appointed under the terms of point 2 of this Article.
(5) Should both the President of the Republic elect and the Vice-President elect become permanently and simultaneously unable to perform their duties prior to taking up office, the political party or coalition of political parties whose list elected the President and Vice-President so impeded shall be responsible for appointing their substitutes from among Members elected by the same list, to take up office
(6) The Constitutional Court shall be responsible for verifying the cases of permanent inability to serve, as prescribed in this Constitution.
Article 145, clause 1 states:
The following shall be ineligible for election as Members:…
Article 151, clause 1 states:
Members shall be suspended from office in the following cases:…
Article 153 states:
(1) Members shall be permanently replaced in the following circumstances:…
(2) When a Member needs to be substituted, their seat shall be filled in order of precedence by the next Member on the party or coalition party list from which the former Member had been elected.