Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 5 states:
The electoral authority will establish the form in which a citizen with a physical disability or who is illiterate will be able to exercise their right to participate in the voting process.
Article 7 states:
A vote is personal, equal and secret…
Article 8 states:
All citizens have the right to be elected or to elect their representatives, in accordance with conditions and procedures that are established in the law.
Article 30 states:
All Peruvians above the age of eighteen are citizens. To exercise citizenship, they must be registered to vote.
Article 31 states:
It is a right and a duty of residents to participate in the municipal government of their jurisdiction. The law governs and promotes direct and indirect mechanisms of this participation. Every citizen has the right to vote in enjoyment of his civil capacity. For the exercise of this right, it is required to be properly registered. Voting is personal, equal, free, secret and compulsory up to the age of seventy years and optional after this age.... Any act that prohibits or abridges citizenship from the exercise of rights, shall be null and punishable.