Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 108a states:
(1) A request for issuing a certificate of eligibility in respect of a Danish citizen wishing to stand as a candidate in local and regional elections in another member state of the European Union must be submitted to the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior.
(2) A certificate eligibility cannot be issued in respect of a Danish citizen having been deprived of his or her legal capacity under a guardianship order, cf. section 6 of the Guardianship Act.
(3) A certificate of eligibility can be issued in respect of a Danish citizen who has not been deprived of his or her legal capacity under a guardianship order, cf. section 6 of the Guardianship Act, with the content that the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior has no knowledge that he or she should have been deprived of his or her eligibility for local and regional councils in Denmark. If, in the current election period, the Eligibility Board has decided that the relevant person is not eligible for local or regional councils, cf. section 4, the certificate of non-eligibility shall carry a note to this effect as well as the limitation date for the relevant criminal offence implying a forfeiture of eligibility for local and regional councils, cf. section 4(2).