Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 5 states:
Should not be entered on the electoral role...(3) incapable adults.
Article 24 states:
Only men and women of Central African origin, aged thirty-five years at least…can be candidates to presidential election. They must enjoy their civil rights, be of good morality and capable of assuring with lucidity and effectiveness the functions of their responsibility.
Article 25 states:
The investiture, by the Constitutional Court, of the President-elect takes place within a time period of forty-five days at most after the Court has dealt with any electoral disputes. In case of the death or of disability within that time period, the provisions of Article 34 below are applied.
Article 34 states:
The vacancy of the Presidency of the Republic is only created by the death, the resignation, the removal, or the conviction of the President or by his definitive incapacity to exercise his functions in accordance with the duties of his office. Any case of definitive incapacity or of illness, which places the President of the Republic in the absolute impossibility of exercising his functions, must be confirmed by a Special Committee presided over by the President of the Constitutional Court and including the President of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister, Head of Government.
Article 35 states:
In case of temporary absence or incapacity of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, Head of Government, assures the substitution.