Communicated on 13 February 2018
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 43564/17
Maria del Mar CAAMANO VALLE
against Spain
lodged on 9 June 2017
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the right to vote of the applicant’s daughter. Upon the request of her parents, she was placed under partial guardianship owing to her intellectual disability. The competent court of first instance further decided her disenfranchisement on the basis of her lack of knowledge of basic aspects of the political and electoral systems and being easily influenced or impressionable.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Has there been a breach of the applicant’s daughter’s (represented by her mother) right under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to vote in free elections which ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature, read alone or in conjunction with Article 14 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12?
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