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                                                           H.E. Gerald D. Burton
                                                      Chairman, Electoral Commission





                PArt i                                                 PArt ii

                  CoUNtrY ProfiLE                                        LEgisLAtivE sYstEM


                  1.  Country Name                                     LEGISLATURE
                      DOMINICA
                                                                         1.  Structure of National Legislature
                  2.  Official Name                                          Unicameral
                      Commonwealth of Dominica
                                                                         2.  Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
                  3.  Government                                             House of Assembly
                      Parliamentary Republic
                                                                         3.  Total no. of members in each house elected/
                  4.  Head of the Government                               nominated
                      Prime Minister – Roosevelt Skerrit                     The President is appointed to serve a 5-year
                                                                             term. In the House of Assembly, 9 members are
                  5.  Head of the State                                      appointed to serve 3-year terms and 21 members
                      President – Charles Savarin                            are elected by popular vote to serve 5-year terms

                  6.  Capital                                            4.  Popular House
                      Roseau                                                 House of Assembly

                  7.  Currency                                           5.  Type of Electoral System
                      Eastern Caribbean Dollar                               FPTP

                  8.  Ethnic Groups (with %age population)             PArt iii
                      African descent 86.6%, mixed 9.1%, indigenous
                      2.9%, other 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2001 est.)     ELECtorAL sYstEM

                  9.  Date of Independence and from which Country      (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
                      3 November 1978 (from the UK)

                10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution          1.  Name of the EMB(S
                      3 November 1978.                                       Electoral Office

                11. Language (s)                                         2.  Website Address
                      English (official)                                     http://electoraloffice.gov.dm

                12. Literacy Levels                                      3.  Head of EMB
                      93.78% Male literacy rate is 93.79%, for females is    (Parliament met for the first time after the
                      93.76%                                                 December 6th 2019 general election on

                * Draft. Updated by the respective EMB          NA-5  151




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