Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Ismail Omar GUELLEH
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil MOHAMED
• Legislature: unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) 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 Assembly (Assemblée nationale) 52 members are directly elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms. There are 6 multi-member constituencies (cercles), with 4 to 37 seats each. The election law was changed in November 2012 to allow for a mixed list electoral system, with the remaining 13 seats (20% of seats) being awarded proportionally. Previously the party that received the most votes in each district received all of the district’s seats.