Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Michel AOUN
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Saad al-HARIRI
• Assembly: Lebanon has a unicameral National Assembly (Majlis al-Nuwab) with 128 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by the National Assembly to serve a 6-year term.
• The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
• In the National Assembly (Majlis al-Nuwab) 128 members are elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms. The electoral system is multiple non-transferable vote (aka block vote) with confessional quotas. There is no standard ballot, and this has important consequences for electoral behavior in Lebanon.