Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Idriss DÉBY ITNO*
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Albert Pahimi PADACKE
• Assembly: Chad has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 188 seats.

*Son of Idriss Déby was named president after his father's death on 19 April 2021

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.
• In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 70 members are elected by absolute majority vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms and 116 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. A Party Block Vote in multi-member districts is used if a list gains an absolute majority of the vote. If no list obtains the majority of the vote, members are elected through party-list proportional representation.