Ethiopia

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 38, section 1 states:

Every Ethiopian national, without any discrimination…has the following rights:…

• (b) On the attainment of 18 years of age, to vote in accordance with law;
• (c) To vote and to be elected at periodic elections to any office at any level of government; elections shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1994)

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Article 79, section 4 states:

(4) No judge shall be removed from his duties before he reaches the retirement age determined by law except under the following conditions:

• (a) When the Judicial Administration Council decides to remove him for violation of disciplinary rules or on grounds of gross incompetence or inefficiency; or
• (b) When the Judicial Administration Council decides that a judge can no longer carry out his responsibilities on account of illness…

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1994)

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Article 79, section 4 states:

(4) No judge shall be removed from his duties before he reaches the retirement age determined by law except under the following conditions:

• (a) When the Judicial Administration Council decides to remove him for violation of disciplinary rules or on grounds of gross incompetence or inefficiency; or
• (b) When the Judicial Administration Council decides that a judge can no longer carry out his responsibilities on account of illness…

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1994)