Bolivia

Population Statistics

10,800,882

Total Population

1,620,132

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

16 November 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ley No. 26 del Regimen Electoral (2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 2 states:
The principles of obligatory observation, that govern the exercise of Intercultural democracy are:…

  • (e) All Bolivians, individually and collectively, and without any form of discrimination, enjoy the same political rights in the Political Constitution of the State and the Laws…

 

Excerpt from the Ley No. 26 del Regimen Electoral (2010)

Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (2009)

Updated: June 2015

Article 26 states:

The right of participation includes:...

  • (2) the right to vote, by means of equal, universal, direct, individual, secret, free and obligatory right, scrutinized publically. The right to vote will be exercised from age 18.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (2009)