Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Ratu Wiliame Maivalili KATONIVERE (since 12 November 2021)
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Sitiveni Ligamamada RABUKA (since 24 December 2022) **
• Assembly: bicameral Parliament consisting of the Senate with 32 seats and the House of Representatives with 71 seats

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by the president on the advice of the Great Council of Chiefs to serve a 5-year term.
• Interim Prime Minister is appointed by the president.
• In the Senate, 14 members are appointed by the president on the advice of the Great Council of Chiefs to serve 5-year terms, 9 members are appointed by the prime minister to serve 5-year terms, 1 members are nominated by the council of Rotuma to serve 5-year terms and 8 members are appointed by the opposition to serve 5-year terms.
• In the House of Representatives 71 members are elected by a majority system with preferential vote to serve 5-year terms.**

** Under the current electoral law, 25 are elected by universal suffrage from Open constituencies ("open" meaning that the franchise is open to all locally resident Fijian citizens, irrespective of their ethnic background), with the remaining 46 elected from communal constituencies, with 23 seats reserved for ethnic Fijians, 19 for Indo-Fijians, 1 for Rotuman Islanders, and 3 for "General Electors" - Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders, and other minorities. Every Fijian citizen eligible to vote thus has two votes - one for an open electorate, and one for a communal electorate.