Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Arif ALVI
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Shehbaz SHARIF
• Assembly: Pakistan has a bicameral Parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) consisting of the Senate with 104 seats and the National Assembly with 342 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is indirectly elected by an electoral college of members of the Senate, National Assembly and the provincial assemblies. The President may serve up to two 5-year terms.
• The Prime Minister is indirectly elected by the National Assembly.
• In the Senate, 104 members are indirectly elected by provincial assemblies and territorial representatives via proportional representation voting. Senators serve 6-year terms and half of the Senate seats are contested every three years.
• In the National Assembly, 272 members are elected by simple majority vote in single-member constituencies. An additional 70 members (60 women and 10 non-Muslims) are directly elected by proportional representation.  All members serve 5-year terms.