Comoros

Population Statistics

780,971

Total Population

117,146

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

16 June 2016

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Electoral Law of Comoros (2007, last amended 2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 2 states:

Suffrage is universal. No one may oppose voters from voting except for cases of incapacity expressly stated in the law.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Law of Comoros (2007, last amended 2010)

Constitution of Comoros (2001)

Updated: June 2015

Article 4 states:

Under conditions specified by law, suffrage is universal, equal and secret…According to conditions determined by the law, all Comorians of both sexes who are at least eighteen years of age and enjoying their full civil and political rights are electors.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Comoros (2001)