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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Taur Matan RUAK
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana GUSMAO
- Assembly: Timor-Leste has a unicameral National Parliament with 65 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
- The Prime Minister is appointed by the president.
- In the National Parliament 65 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***
*** There is one, nationwide constituency and a 3 percent threshold for entering parliament. Each list must contain the names of 65 candidates and no fewer than 25 alternate candidates. In addition, every fourth candidate on a list must be female. (Law 6/2006 Article 12 (3) Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method.
Population:
- Population: 1,201,255 (July 2012 )
Past elections
- Parliamentary - July 7, 2012
- Presidential
Second Round - April 16, 2012 - Presidential
First Round - March 17, 2012 - Parliamentary - June 30, 2007
- Presidential
Second Round - May 9, 2007 - Presidential
First Round - April 9, 2007 - Presidential - April 14, 2002
- Parliamentary - August 30, 2001
- Referendum - August 30, 1999
Last Updated on 06/17/2012
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