| Question: | What are the legal qualifications to become a candidate at legislative elections (Chamber 1)? |
| Answer(s): |
a. Age
b. Citizenship
d. Residence
i. Minimum level of literacy
j. Other
|
| Comments: |
a) Over 25 years of age.
b) Be a native or have taken up residence in an electoral district and have been registered as living there in the census.
i) Know how to read and write properly.
j) Have been declared a candidate in accordance with the present Law. Be in full possession of one's civil and political rights. |
| Source: |
IPU Parline database:
http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2101.htm |
| Verified: |
2007/01/31 |
