Uruguay

Population Statistics

3,341,893

Total Population

501,284

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

27
oct

Uruguayan Chamber of Senators

2024

11 February 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Political Constitution of the Republic of Uruguay (1966, last amended 2004)

Updated: June 2015

Article 80 states:

Citizenship is suspended:

  • (1) for physical or mental ineptitude which impedes acting freely and reflexively.

 

Article 115 states:

...By equal number of vote, members can be removed for physical or mental disability…

 

Article 155 states:

 case of resignation, permanent disability, or death of the president and vice president elects, before taking possession of their positions, the first and second on the lists voted will resume their place…

 

Excerpts from the Political Constitution of the Republic of Uruguay (1966, last amended 2004)