Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 34 states:
…Citizens who are recognised incapable by court shall not participate in elections.
Article 56 states:
Any citizen of the Republic of Lithuania who is not bound by an oath or pledge to a foreign state, and who, on the election day, is not younger than 25 years of age and permanently resides in Lithuania, may be elected a Member of the Seimas. Persons who have not fulfilled punishment imposed by a court judgement as well as persons recognised incapable by court may not be elected Members of the Seimas.
Article 63 states:
The powers of a Member of the Seimas shall cease: …
(4) when he is recognised incapable by court;
Article 89 states:
…The Speaker of the Seimas shall substitute for the President of the Republic when the latter is temporarily abroad or has fallen ill and for this reason is temporarily unable to hold office…
Article 97 states:
The Prime Minister shall represent the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and shall head its activities. When the Prime Minister is not available, or when he is unable to hold office, the President of the Republic, upon the submission of the Prime Minister, shall charge one of the Ministers to substitute for the Prime Minister during a period not exceeding 60 days; when there is no such submission, the President of the Republic shall charge one of the Ministers to substitute for the Prime Minister.
Article 108 states:
The powers of a justice of the Constitutional Court shall cease: …
(4) when he is incapable to hold office due to the state of his health…
Article 4, paragraph 1 states:
Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who are 18 years of age or older on polling day shall have the right to vote for a President of the Republic. Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who have been declared legally incapable by the court shall not participate in an election.
Article 24, paragraph 4 states:
The following persons shall be removed from the electoral roll of the Republic of Lithuania:… 3) a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania who has been declared legally incapable by the court.
Article 28, paragraph 1 states:
…The voter shall sign his poll card himself, except for the cases where he cannot sign it himself because of his physical disability, illness…and the poll card is signed by any other person chosen by the voter…
Article 56, paragraph 5 states:
Voters who because of physical handicaps, illness or any other reason cannot carry out the actions referred to in this Article may choose another person to mark the ballot papers for them...The chairman, members of the electoral committee, election observers and representatives for elections shall be prohibited from carrying out voting-related actions for the person who cannot carry out these actions because of physical handicaps, illness or any other reason.
Article 57 states:
(1) Voting by post shall be made possible for voters who due to the health or age are in health care (except out-patient) facilities, social care institutions …and, therefore, are unable to arrive at a polling district…
(7) …If because of the physical handicaps, an illness or any other reasons a voter cannot carry out the said actions himself, at his request such actions shall be carried out by a person chosen by him…
(9) Postal workers shall be prohibited from carrying out for a voter the actions referred to in paragraphs 6 and 8 of this Article, accepting from the voter the covering envelope which is not sealed, issuing voters with election documents in other places and to other persons than those provided for in Articles 61, 62 and 63 of this Law. Voters shall be prohibited from taking out postal ballot papers, covering envelopes or handing them to other persons.
Article 61 states:
(4) Voters without movement disorders shall vote in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 57…Voters with movement disorders shall be visited by at least two polling district committee members, election observers (should they wish so) and employees of special post offices.
(5) If because of physical handicaps, illness or any other reasons voters are unable to vote themselves, they may entrust other persons to vote for them. These persons must mark the ballot paper in the voter's presence under his instructions and preserve the secrecy of voting.
(6) Committee members, employees of a special post office and election observers shall be prohibited from carrying out the actions related to voting, as well as from accepting an unsealed covering envelope from the voter.
Article 2 states:
(1)…Citizens who have been declared legally incompetent by the court shall not participate in elections…
(3) Persons who, with 65 days remaining before elections, have not yet served their sentence imposed by the court, as well as persons who have been declared legally incompetent and incapable by the court may not stand for election as members of the Seimas….
Article 4 states:
There shall be no voting by proxy in the elections of the Seimas members.
Article 5, paragraph 1 states:
Voters shall vote in person and by secret ballot. It shall be prohibited for a person to vote instead of another person or to vote by proxy. A voter who because of his physical disability cannot cast a ballot himself, may vote with the assistance of another person whom he trusts...
Article 26, paragraph 3 states:
The following persons shall be removed from the electoral roll of the Republic of Lithuania: a diseased citizen of the Republic of Lithuania; … a citizen who has been declared legally incompetent by the court.
Article 66, paragraph 6 states:
If the voter who, because of his physical disability, is unable to carry out actions specified in this Article, the ballot papers shall, on his request, be marked by a person chosen by the abovementioned voter. Such person must mark the ballot papers in the presence of the voter and according to his instructions, keep the secrecy of voting and cast the ballot papers into the ballot box in the presence of the voter. Members of the electoral committees, election observers and representatives for elections shall be prohibited from carrying out voting-related actions for the disabled voter.
Article 67 states:
(1) Postal voting shall be possible for voters who are in institutions of healthcare (with the exception of outpatient healthcare institutions), social care or guardianship because of their health condition or age, or who perform mandatory military service and therefore are unable to come to a polling district to vote…
(8) Actions [when marking and returning the postal voting ballot] be carried out by a voter himself. If because of the physical disability a voter is unable to carry out the said actions himself, at his request such actions shall be carried out by a person he chooses. This person must mark the ballot papers in the presence of the voter according to his instructions and preserve the secrecy of voting.
(9) A postal worker shall be prohibited from carrying out for a voter the actions referred to in paragraphs 6 and 8 of this Article, as well as from accepting from the voter a return envelope which is not sealed. Voters shall be prohibited from taking out postal ballot papers, postal voting envelopes or handing them to other persons.
Article 67(1) states:
(1) Only the following persons may vote at home: disabled voters, voters with temporary working incapacity, voters aged 70 and over if because of the health condition they are unable to come to a polling district to vote on an election day and if they have produced a voter’s request, the form of which is set by the Central Electoral Commission, for voting at home. The electoral committees which draw up and revise rolls of voters voting at home shall have the right to receive the data on disabled person from the State Social Insurance Fund Board or its territorial offices, and the data on persons with temporary working incapacity – from healthcare institutions. The electoral committees may not disseminate these data and shall use them only for compilation and revision of rolls of voters voting at home…
(4) Voters’ requests for voting at home shall be submitted to polling district committees. The committees shall begin to accept requests of voters, residing within the territory of a concrete polling district, for voting at home by handing roll cards to such voters and end accepting the requests on the Wednesday preceding an election day. The committees shall end accepting requests of voters, who temporarily stay within the territory of a concrete polling district and have not been entered on the roll of voters of this polling district, for voting at home on the Tuesday preceding an election day. A voter, who because of his physical disability is unable to fill in a request for voting at home or to hand it to a polling district committee, may authorise his family member, neighbour or a person who takes care of him, or an electoral committee member to carry out the said actions for him. These persons shall sign the voter’s request and indicate their name, surname and personal number.
Article 71 states:
(1) Voters who because of their health condition or age are in healthcare (except outpatient healthcare) facilities, institutions of social guardianship and care shall be entitled to vote in such institutions…
(5) If because of the disabilities a voter is unable to vote himself, he may entrust another person to vote for him. Such person must mark the ballot papers in the presence of the voter according to his instructions and preserve the secrecy of voting.
(6) Committee members, employees of a special post office and election observers shall be prohibited from carrying out the actions related to voting, as well as from accepting from the voter a return envelope which is not sealed…
Article 96 states:
The Central Electoral Commission shall recognise the lapse of the powers of a Seimas member, with the exception of the cases provided for in paragraph 6 of Article 95, not later than within 15 days after the occurrence of a cause for it:… 3) when the court declares a Seimas member legally incompetent - according to the effective decision of the court…