It was established after a 2010 referendum changed the government structure to a single territorial collectivity.[2] The current president, Gabriel Serville, was elected to a six-year term in 2021.There are eight multi-member electoral sections whose seats are distributed using closed list proportional representation with the highest average method.In the first round, if a list receives the absolute majority of the votes in the community, they obtain the majority bonus which is distributed amongst the electoral sections.The rest of the 44 seats are distributed proportionally in each section to the lists who have won at least 5% of the votes at the community level.