1.   By August the government was trying to pacify protest by undertaking to summon an elected consultative assembly.

2.   He also had the right to make laws with the agreement of the elected assemblies.

3.   New Caledonia is divided into three provinces each of which has its own directly elected assembly elected for up to six years.

4.   The role of elected assemblies is largely reduced to legitimizing policy formulation in tripartite planning councils.

5.   Interest groups articulate the demands of sectional groups in society, and public policy responds to these pressures to the virtual exclusion of elected assemblies.

6.   A free press and the close scrutiny of freely elected assemblies will help to root out corruption and mis-management.

7.   An elected assembly would be created in the province, as would so-called cross-border institutions that link the north with the Irish Republic.

8.   An elected assembly would be set up in Belfast and presided over by a Cabinet staffed by politicians from various parties in Northern Ireland.

9.   At the same time the Welsh will be voting for the first elected national assembly in their history.