IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: San Marino

Name	Official Name	Type
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	Consiglio Grande e Generale	Assembly

Chief of State: Co-chiefs of State Captain Regent Marino RICCARDI and Captain Regent Fabio BERARDI (for the period 1 October 2016 - 1 April 2017)*
Head of Government: Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs Pasquale VALENTINI
Assembly: San Marino has a unicameral Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale) with 60 seats.

* The Co-Chiefs of State (captains regent) are elected by the Great and General Council for a six-month term.

The Co-Chiefs of States are indirectly elected by parliament.
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs is elected by parliament.
In the Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale) 60 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms. There is a 3.5 percent threshold. If the coalition with the highest number of votes fails to win 35 seats, it is given "bonus seats" to meet the 35-seat requirement.

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	2001-06-10	22,648	30,688	73.8
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	2006-06-04	22,815	31,759	71.84
Referendum	2011-03-27	13,329	32,972	40.43
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	2012-11-11	21,138	33,106	63.85
Referendum	2013-10-20	14,449	33,303	43.39
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	2019-12-08	-	-	-
Sammarinese Grand and General Council	2024-12-31	-	-	-

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