Djibouti

Population Statistics

828,324

Total Population

124,249

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

18 June 2012

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of Djibouti (1992, last amended 2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 27 states:

If, before the first round, one of the candidates dies or is found to be incapacitated, the Constitutional Council orders the postponement of the election. In the case of death or of incapacity of one of the two candidates most favored in the first round, before any eventual withdrawals, or that of one of the two candidates remaining following any such withdrawals, the Constitutional Council can decide on the repetition of the whole of the electoral operations.

 

Excerpt from Constitution of Djibouti (1992, last amended 2010)