Suriname

Article 6 states:

The following persons are excluded from exercising their right to vote…

• (c) those who, under an irrevocable court order on account of insanity or frailty of intellectual facilities, have lost control over their property.

Excerpt from the Electoral Law (1987)

Article 58 states:

Those persons shall be debarred from exercising the right to vote:…

• (c) Who, by virtue of an irrevocable judicial decision, have lost the right to dispose of or administer their property on account of insanity or imbecility.

Article 68, paragraph 1 states:

Membership of the National Assembly is terminated by:…

• (d) The arising of conditions that exclude eligibility…

Article 92, paragraph 1 states:

To be eligible for appointment as President or Vice-President a candidate must:…not be excluded from the right of active and passive suffrage…

Article 98 states:

The office of the President is exercised by the Vice-President:

• (a) In case the President is declared unfit to exercise his powers…

Article 142, paragraph 2 states:

The persons mentioned in the first paragraph [member of the Judicial Power and the Attorney-General] may be discharged on the proposal of the Court of Justice:…in case of proven continuous mental disorder…

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Suriname (1987, last amended 1992)