Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Maia SANDU
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Dorin RECEAN
• Assembly: Moldova has a unicameral Parliament (Parlament) with 101 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is directly elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 4-year term.
  • ​For the election to be valid, participation is required from at least one-third of registered voters. A candidate who obtains at least half of the votes cast is considered elected. If no candidate obtains the required number of votes, a second round is held two weeks later between the two winning candidates. In the second round, the candidate who obtains the higher number of votes is considered elected. If less than one-fifth of the registered voters have participated in the second round elections, they are not considered valid. In this case, repeated elections shall be organized in two weeks after the elections are declared invalid.
• The Prime Minister is designated by the President upon consultation with Parliament.
• In the Parliament (Parlament) 101 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. 
  • There is a 2 percent threshold for independent candidates, 5 percent threshold for individual parties, 7 percent for electoral blocks of multiple parties. An election is valid only if one-third of registered voters turn out.