Now, all persons with disabilities are able to vote and marry

So far, 310 000 persons with disabilities were deprived of their right to vote, others could not marry without the consent of a judge. The secretary of State for people with disabilities, Sophie Cluzel, just rang the end of this situation.

The persons of full age under tutorship will have in the future a right to vote inalienable and will also be able to marry, se pacser, and divorce, without a judge can deny, she announced Thursday, October 25, before the holding of an inter-ministerial committee of the disability.

It is a measure for "putting people with disabilities in the citizenship," said Sophie Cluzel in arriving at Matignon, Kalebet where should stand the meeting. The goal is that "everyone can vote, at the latest, in the next municipal elections of 2020," says the minister in an interview with the Parisien.

"discrimination"

For people with disabilities are able to "act in the city," the government is committed to repeal the article of the election code giving the faculty to the guardianship judge to remove the right to vote to those under guardianship, a situation that relates, for example, the mentally disabled.

" This action is taken under the pretext of protecting them. They thus remove that right, but an inalienable and unconditional. It is a form of discrimination, a way to say : "You are second-class citizens ", argued Ms. Cluzel in Paris.

Date Of Update: 26 October 2018, 07:00