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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Serzh SARGSYAN
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Tigran SARGSYAN
- Assembly: Armenia has a unicameral National Assembly (Azgayin Zhoghov) with 131 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 (Azgayin Zhoghov), 90 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 41 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.***
*** There is a five percent threshold for the party-list tier.
Population:
- Population: 2,970,495 (July 2012 est.)
Past elections
- Presidential - February 18, 2013
- Parliamentary - May 6, 2012
- Presidential - February 19, 2008
- Parliamentary - May 12, 2007
- Referendum - November 27, 2005
- Parliamentary - May 25, 2003
- Referendum - May 25, 2003
- Presidential
Second Round - March 5, 2003 - Presidential
First Round - February 19, 2003 - Parliamentary - May 30, 1999
- Presidential
Second Round - March 30, 1998 - Presidential
First Round - March 16, 1998
Last Updated on 01/10/2013
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