More than 1,100 people excluded from right to vote

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Paulus Pinas, deputy director at the Justice and Police Ministry’s Offender Care Department, told Times of Suriname that 1,150 inmates who are behind bars at the nation’s penitentiaries are excluded from the right to vote. These people can’t be nominated and they also can’t go the polls. Statistics indicate that 52 inmates will be released before election day, May 25. But if these 52 people do not take care of their papers, they will not be able to go to the polls on May 25…[+]