_#_National holiday: National Day (proclamation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic), 2 December (1975)
_#_Executive branch: president, chairman and four vice chairmen of the Council of Ministers, Council of Ministers (cabinet)
_#_Legislative branch: Supreme People's Assembly
_#_Judicial branch: People's Supreme Court
_#_Leaders:
Chief of State—President KAYSONE PHOMVIHAN (since 15
August 1991);
Head of Government—Chairman of the Council of Ministers General
Gen. KHAMTAI SIPHANDON (since 15 August 1991)
_#_Political parties and leaders: Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), KAYSONE PHOMVIHAN, party chairman; includes Lao Patriotic Front and Alliance Committee of Patriotic Neutralist Forces; other parties moribund
_#_Suffrage: universal at age 18
_#_Elections: