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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Alpha CONDE
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Mohamed Said FOFANA
- Assembly: Guinea has a unicameral People's National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale Populaire) with 114 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 7-year term.
- The Prime Minister is appointed by the President.
- In the People's National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale Populaire), 38 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms and 76 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***
*** In the proportional tier, there is one nationwide district.
Population:
- Population: 10,324,025 (July 2010 est.)
Future elections
- Presidential - 2015
- Legislative - June 30, 2013
Past elections
- Presidential
Second Round - November 7, 2010 - Presidential
First Round - June 27, 2010 - Parliamentary - March 16, 2010
- Presidential - December 21, 2003
- Parliamentary - June 30, 2002
- Legislative - December 27, 2001
- Referendum - November 11, 2001
- Presidential - December 14, 1998
Last Updated on 12/27/2010
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