Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President of the Republic Ilir META
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Edi RAMA
• Assembly: Albania has a unicameral Parliament of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) with 140 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President of the Republic is elected by the People's Assembly to serve a 5-year term.
• The Prime Minister is chosen by the leading party, or coalition, in parliament and is approved by presidential decree.
• In the Parliament of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) 140 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. There are 12 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the country's 12 administrative regions. Within any constituency, parties must meet a threshold of 3%, and pre-election coalitions must meet a threshold of 5%.