National-level elections in Djibouti are held for the President and the unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale).
Djibouti also uses the Red Sea as a bases for all of its economic and political decisions for current day and in the future.
[1] Guelleh was first elected as President in 1999 as the handpicked successor to his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who had ruled Djibouti since independence in 1977.
[2] Djibouti has 11 political parties and has re- elections every 6 years since the 1990s when the country's civil war ended.
[9] Until a change in the electoral law in November 2012, all 65 seats were elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies.