IFES Election Guide - Election Profile for Burkina Faso

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Country: Burkina Faso
Official Name: Burkina Faso
Election Type: Presidential
Date: November 21, 2010

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At stake in this election:

The office of President of Burkina Faso

Description of government structure:

Chief of State: President Blaise COMPAORE
Head of Government: Prime Minister Tertius ZONGO
Assembly: Burkina Faso has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) with 111 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 with the approval of the parliament.
In the National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) 111 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** There is one nationwide, multi-member, constituency with a district magnitude of 15 and 13 multi-member constituencies with district magnitudes ranging form 2 to 10.

Main Candidates in the Presidential race:

Blaise COMPAORE
Party: Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) / Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès
Hama Arba DIALLO
Party: Party for Democracy and Socialism / Parti pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme
Bénéwendé Stanislas SANKARA
Party: Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Movement / Union pour la Renaissance / Mouvement Sankariste (Unir-PS)
Francios KABORE
Party: Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party / Parti pour la Démocratie et le Progrès / Parti Socialiste (PDP/PS)
Pargui Emile PARE
Party: People's Movement for Socialism/Federal Party / Mouvement du peuple pour le socialisme/Parti federal (MPS/PF)
Boukary KABORE
Party: N/A
Maxime KABORE
Independent(s)