Second Section
ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Article 56

1. Members of the National Assembly shall be elected for a five-year term.
2. The law can only derogate from the five-year term in case of war or other extraordinary circumstances, which prevent the holding of elections.

Article 57

1. The members of the National Assembly shall be elected directly by the inhabitants having Suriname nationality and having reached the age of eighteen years.
2. Each elector shall have one vote only.

Article 58
Those persons shall be debarred from exercising the right to vote:

a. To whom the right to vote has been denied by an irrevocable judicial decision;

b. Who are lawfully deprived of their liberty

c. Who, by virtue of an irrevocable judicial decision, have lost the right to dispose of or administer their property on account of insanity or imbecility.

Article 59
Eligible are the inhabitants who have Suriname nationality, who have reached the age of twenty-one and have not been deprived of the right to vote on the grounds mentioned in the previous article under (a) and (c).

Article 60
Everything else relating to universal suffrage, the creation of an independent electoral council and its authority the division of Suriname in electoral districts, the repartition of seats in the National Assembly by electoral district and the methods according to which the allocation of seats takes place shall be regulated by law. This law shall be passed with a 2/3 majority.