Timor-Leste

Table of Contents:

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

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Article 4 states:

(1) Active electoral capacity is granted to all Timorese citizens over 17 years of age residing in the national territory.

(2) In order to be able to exercise the right of vote it shall be a mandatory condition to be registered in the voter registration.

 

Article 5 states:

The following are not granted active electoral capacity:

(a) Individuals judicially disabled due to a sentence imposed by a court of law;

(b) Individuals clearly and publicly known as mentally ill even where they are not judicially disabled.

 

Excerpts from the Law on the Election of the President of the Republic (2006, last amended 2011)

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Article 5 states:

The following are not granted active electoral capacity: (a) Individuals judicially disabled due to a sentence imposed by a court of law; (b) Individuals clearly and publicly known as mentally ill even where they are not judicially disabled.

 

Article 6 states:

To stand as presidential candidates, Timorese citizens should meet the following requirements cumulatively:

(a) original citizenship;

(b) at least thirty-five years of age;

(c) to be in possession of his or her full faculties.

 

Article 14 states:

In case of death, resignation, permanent disability, or destitution of the President of the Republic, the election shall be held within the 90 days following the verification or declaration thereof.

 

Excerpts from the Law on the Election of the President of the Republic (2006, last amended 2011)

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Article 6 states:

To stand as presidential candidates, Timorese citizens should meet the following requirements cumulatively:

(a) original citizenship;

(b) at least thirty-five years of age;

(c) to be in possession of his or her full faculties.

 

Excerpt from the Law on the Election of the President of the Republic (2006, last amended 2011)