At stake in this election:

• 60 seats in the Grand and General Council (Consiglio Grande e Generale)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: Co-Chiefs of State Captain Regent Gian Franco TERENZI and Captain Regent Loris FRANCINI *
• Head of Government: Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs Fabio BERARDI
• 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.

Description of electoral system:

• The Co-Chiefs of Sate is elected .
• 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.

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Party: Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party / Partito Democratico Cristiano Sanmarinese (PDCS)
  • Leader: Pier Marino MENICUCCI
  • Seats won in this election: 21
  • Seats won in last election: 25
• Party: Party of Socialists and Democrats / Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici (PSD)
  • Leader: Morganti Giuseppe MARIA
  • Seats won in this election: 20
  • Seats won in last election: 27
• Party: Popular Alliance / Alleanza Popolare (AP)
  • Leader: Roberto GIORGETTI
  • Seats won in this election: 7
  • Seats won in last election: 5
• Party: United Left / Sinistra Unita (SU)
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 5
  • Seats won in last election: 2
• Party: New Socialist Party / Nuovo Partido Socialista (NPS)
  • Leader: Antonio VOLPINARI
  • Seats won in this election: 3
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: We Sammarinese / Noi Sammarinesi (NS)
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 1
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: Sammarinese People / Popolari Sammarinesi (POPOLARI)
  • Leader: Romeo MORRI
  • Seats won in this election: 1
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: Sammarinese National Alliance / Alleanza Nationale Sanmarinese (ANS)
  • Leader: Vittorio Ennio PELLANDRA
  • Seats won in this election: 1
  • Seats won in last election: 1
• Party: Sammarinese for Freedom / Sammarinesi per la Libertà (SpL)
  • Leader: Giuseppe ROSSI
  • Seats won in this election: 1
  • Seats won in last election: N/A

Last Parliamentary election:

• The last parliamentary election was held on June 10, 2001.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 29,251 (July 2006 est.)
• Registered Voters: 31,759 (2006)

Gender Data:

·         Is San Marino a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (26 September 2003)

·         Has San Marino ratified CEDAW: Yes (10 December 2003)

·         Gender Quota: No

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 7 (following the 2006 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: N/A

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: N/A

Disability Data:

·         Is San Marino a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007)

·         Has San Marino ratified CRPD: Yes (22 February 2008)

·         Population with a disability: 4,387 (est.)