The State Assembly is comprised of one hundred and one members. It is a permanent legislative State institution with broad organisational functions. The State Assembly resolves all national issues which are not resolved by the State bodies or by local governments. The State Assembly is elected in free, general, uniform and direct elections for a term of four years.
Voting is secret.
Every Estonian citizen who is entitled to vote and who has attained twenty-one years of age may be a candidate for the State Assembly. Special elections to the State Assembly are announced by the Present of the Republic in accordance with the Constitution . The State Assembly forms permanent and temporary committees. The numbers of seats in committees are divided in proportion to the size of factions in the State Assembly. Each member of the State Assembly may belong only to one committee.