Description of Electoral System:

(Courtesy of IFES election guide)

The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 6-year term. In the National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale) 109 members are elected by popular vote to serve 5-year terms.

Electoral Systems Snapshot

(Courtesy of International IDEA)

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Most recent election

(courtesy of wikipedia)

Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the Central African Republic on March 13, 2005 (first round) and May 8, 2005 (second round), marking the end of the transitional process that began with the seizure of power by François Bozizé in a March 2003 coup. Bozizé ran in the election in an attempt to win a five-year term after two years as transitional leader, and ten other candidates also ran. Former president Ange-Félix Patassé, who was overthrown by Bozizé, was excluded from running. In the concurrent parliamentary elections, the 105 seats in the new parliament were contested.

The elections, the country's first since a victory by Patassé in the September 1999 presidential election, followed a new constitution that took effect in late December 2004, having been approved by the people in a referendum. A run-off election between Bozizé, who won the most votes in the first round according to official results, and Martin Ziguélé, a former prime minister under Patassé, was held, and Bozizé won this second round with 64.6 % of the vote. He was inaugurated on June 11.