Suffrage,
political franchise, or simply
franchise is the
right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to
vote). The right to run for office is sometimes called
candidate eligibility, and the combination of both rights is sometimes called
full suffrage. In many languages, the right to vote is called the
active right to vote and the right to run for office is called the
passive right to vote. In English, these are sometimes called
active suffrage and
passive suffrage.
