Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: Vacant
• Head of Government: Caretaker Prime Minister Najib MIQATI
• 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 Presidency has been vacant since October 2022 as the National Assembly has failed to elect a new president with support from at least two thirds of members.
• 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.