Democratic Republic of Congo

Table of Contents:

• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 10 states:

Are ineligible to present their candidature for an election...

• (4) Those people struck with medically proven total mental incapacity in the five years preceding the election.

 

Article 58 states:

An elector for whom it is impossible to perform the operation of voting is to be assisted by a person of his choice from the qualified electors. Any member of the voting bureau or any voter who has given assistance to another elector may disclose the choice of that voter.

 

Excerpts from the Law No. 06/006 for the Organization of Presidential, Legislative, Provincial, Urban, Municipal and Local Elections (2006, last amended 2011)

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Article 58 states:

An elector for whom it is impossible to perform the operation of voting is to be assisted by a person of his choice from the qualified electors. Any member of the voting bureau or any voter who has given assistance to another elector may disclose the choice of that voter.

 

Excerpt from the Law No. 06/006 for the Organization of Presidential, Legislative, Provincial, Urban, Municipal and Local Elections (2006, last amended 2011)

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Article 10 states:

Are ineligible to present their candidature for an election...

• (4) Those people struck with medically proven total mental incapacity in the five years preceding the election.

 

Article 13 states:

Every party list is drawn up taking into account a joint representation of men and women and of the promotion of people living with a handicap.

 

Excerpts from the Law No. 06/006 for the Organization of Presidential, Legislative, Provincial, Urban, Municipal and Local Elections (2006, last amended 2011)