As in every election since 2005, the “My Right Campaign” returned in the 2022 parliamentary elections to emphasize activating the role of people with disabilities in political life, facilitating their participation in elections, and removing them from the state of marginalization that dominates their participation in political life, which is caused by engineering obstacles, the absence of alternative means to participate in elections, and inherited and prejudiced ideas and inferiority towards their abilities.

Believing that participation in parliamentary elections is a right of all citizens, and that participation is a duty for citizens to be able to deliver their representatives to the legislative institution and to be able to demand their rights, the “My Right” campaign was launched in 2005 to activate the role of people with disabilities in political life as a lobbying force and to highlight their issues through elections.

Ahead of the 2022 parliamentary elections, the campaign set three demands:

• Using the ground floor rooms of polling stations as polling places.
• Running elevators where there are
• Creating polling stations in the courtyards of centers where the first two requirements are not available.

During the period leading up to the elections (November 2021-May 2022), the campaign intensified its demanding movement towards the relevant ministries (Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ministry of Social Affairs). This was accompanied by an awareness-raising campaign that communicated its demands to stakeholders and individuals with disabilities through civil alliances and coalitions, international organizations related to electoral reform, disability organizations, and civil organizations.

Teams of observers from the Haqqi campaign toured the electoral centers (all schools) provided by the Ministry to monitor the proper conduct of the electoral process for voters with disabilities. Overall, despite the violations, most of which can be overcome with training of polling station chiefs and their assistants, security forces, and representatives of candidates and parliamentary blocs, it can be said that a positive breakthrough has been achieved, and the campaign has proven the model of an inclusive electoral center by adopting the ground floor and introducing polling stations in the courtyards.

The report in our hands contains the results of the work of the monitoring teams, which are divided into three sections.

• Section I: Readiness of polling centers for disabled voters
• Section II: Monitoring violations against disabled voters.
• Section III: Interviews with disabled voters on Election Day.

The report has been supplemented with introductions, general background, and interim recommendations; it is accompanied by the “My Right Campaign” policy paper on the Federation’s quest for persons with disabilities to enjoy their civil and political rights to stand for office and vote independently and with dignity, which includes strategic recommendations.