Government Structure:

• Chief of State: President Alar KARIS
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Kaja KALLAS
• Assembly: Estonia has a unicameral Parliament (Riigikogu) with 101 seats.

Electoral System:

• The President is indirectly elected by Parliament in up to four rounds of voting.  The President may serve up to two 5-year terms.
• The Prime Minister is nominated by the president and confirmed by the parliament.
• In the Parliament (Riigikogu), 101 members are directly elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. *

* = There are 12 multi-member constituencies, each represented by 5 to 15 seats. Seats are allocated in three rounds. In the first round, seats are awarded to candidates who garner the same or more votes than the simple quota in their electoral districts. In the second round, seats are allocated using a traditional PR method. Party lists are awarded seats based on their share of the vote in the district, and candidates within the list receive seats in the order of how many votes they received. In the third round of counting, all remaining mandates are distributed between the national candidate lists with at least 5% of the national vote.