Republic of Congo

Article 58 states:

One cannot be a candidate for the office of President of the Republic if...

•  if he does not possess civil and political rights;
• if he is not of good morality…
• He is not in a healthy physical and mental state, confirmed by a group of three doctors under oath, designated by the Constitutional Court.

Article 63 states:

If, before the first round, one of the candidates does or finds himself definitively incapacitated, the Constitutional Court declares the recall of the election. In case of the death or a definitive incapacity of one of the two most favored candidates in the first round, the constitutional Court shall declare that there will be a new ensemble of electoral operations; the same shall take place in case of the death or definitive incapacity of one of the two candidates remaining for presentation in the second round. In the case referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above, the Constitutional Court seated, either by the President of the Republic or by the National Assembly or by anyone interested, prior agates the time periods, referred in article 62, so long as the balloting can take place ninety days after the decision by the constitutional Court. If the application of the provisions of the present paragraph shall have the effect of recalling the presidential election, the incumbent President shall remain in office until the oath of his successor.

Article 67 states:

In case of the death or definitive incapacity of the elected President before assuming his function new elections and scheduled within a period fifty to ninety days. The incumbent President of the Republic remains in function until the delivery of the oath by the new elected President of the Republic.

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of the Congo (2002)