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ES001

Head of State
Question:How is the Head of State selected?
Answer(s): g. Inherited monarchy
Comments: Head of State is the King or Queen - Royal power is inherited by men and women in accordance with the provisions of the Succession to the Throne Act, 27th March, 1953.
Source: Constitution, Sec. 2
Verified: 2019/05/22
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ES002

Head of Government
Question:How is the Head of Government selected?
Answer: e. Appointed
Comments: The King shall appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister and the other Ministers.
Source: Constitution, Sec.14
Verified: 2019/05/22
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ES003

President
Question:Does the country have a president?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
Source: Constitution, Pt. 3 Sec. 14
Verified: 2019/05/22
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ES004

Number of Chambers
Question:The national legislature consists of (one/two chambers):
Answer: a. One chamber
Comments: The Folketing shall consist of one assembly of not more than one hundred and seventy-nine Members, of whom two Members shall be elected in the Faroe Islands and two Members in Greenland.
Source: Constitution, Sec. 28
Verified: 2019/05/22
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ES005

Electoral System (Chamber 1)
Question:What is the electoral system for Chamber 1 of the national legislature?
Answer(s): g. List Proportional Representation
Comments: Article 76: The votes cast for each party in all nomination districts in a multimember constituency shall be summed up. The votes cast for each individual candidate shall equally be summed up. Each number of votes appearing as a result of the summation, cf. subsection (1), shall be divided by 1 – 2 – 3 and so on until such number of divisions equivalent to the maximum number of seats expected to be allocated to the party or to the independent candidate has been performed. The party or the independent candidate having the highest resulting quotients shall be given the first seat in the multimember constituency. The second highest quotient entails the second seat and so on and so forth, until all constituency seats in the multimember constituency have been distributed among the parties and the independent candidates. If two or more quotients are of equal size, lots shall be drawn.
Source: Electoral Law, Art. 76.
Verified: 2019/05/23
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