section_path: Background/Electoral system
section_name: Electoral system
paragraph_text: Electoral system
  
  The Assembly of the Republic has 230 members elected to four-year terms. There are 22 electoral constituencies, with each having multiple seats depending on the district magnitude listed in the table below (which roughly depends on population). Within each constituency, the seats are allocated to parties based on closed list proportional representation and the d'Hondt method.
  
  In parliamentary confidence votes, only "no" votes are tallied, so a government can be forced out only if at least 116 MPs vote against it. It is therefore possible for a minority government to survive with less than 116 seats, unless the opposition parties unite against it. Nevertheless, a stable coalition government will seek the support of at least 116 MPs.
  
  For the 2025 legislative election, the distribution of seats per constituency was: