Description of government structure:

    * Chief of State: President Abdoulaye WADE

    * Head of Government: Prime Minister Soulayemane Ndene NDIAYE

    * Assembly: Senegal has a bicameral Parliament (Parlement) consisting of the Senate (Sénat) with 100 seats and the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 150 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 Senate (Sénat), 35 members are indirectly elected by an electoral college to serve 5-year terms and 65 members are appointed by the president to serve 5-year terms*. In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 60 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 90 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.