Alcances en materia jurídico electoral de la recién promulgada Ley N° 9379 para la promoción de la Autonomía Personal de las Personas con Discapacidad: un análisis de la función cuasi legislativa del Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones

Within the context of the twentieth anniversary of the enactment of Bill N° 7600 and eight years after de ratification of the Convention about the rights of people with disabilities, Bill N° 9379 was enacted in August 2016 to Promote the Personal Autonomy of People with Disabilities. This norm seeks...

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Main Author: Soto Chacón, Lucía
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6273224
Source:Revista de Derecho Electoral, ISSN 1659-2069, Nº. 25, 2018
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Summary: Within the context of the twentieth anniversary of the enactment of Bill N° 7600 and eight years after de ratification of the Convention about the rights of people with disabilities, Bill N° 9379 was enacted in August 2016 to Promote the Personal Autonomy of People with Disabilities. This norm seeks to provide personal assistants and legal support to those individuals with functional diversity and whose economic situation prevents them from having access to those services. In addition, it establishes the annulment of the “Interdiction” “Insanity”, and “Caretaker Appointment” established in the family and civil codes. Hence, Bill N° 9379 advocates the recuperation of the capacity to act of these individuals with which they regain those personal rights that they had lost with their disqualification. Among such prerogatives is the right to active suffrage; thus, those individuals that by virtue of compliance with a civil sentence had been segregated from the list of registered voters were registered again