11.   Only the president, the Parliament and some municipal councils are elected.

12.   Their budgets must be approved by a municipal council.

13.   Tung also abolished municipal councils, the only governing bodies that were directly elected, and he reinstated appointed members to district councils.

14.   Voters in Bahrain, chosing municipal councils this month.

15.   When the union officials leave in December they say they will hand over all responsibilities to the joint municipal council that the Croats have tried to make inoperable.

16.   Over in Sibu, Sarawak, the municipal council has barred journalists from its monthly meetings.

17.   Party chairman Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen hoped his austerity move would also influence members of the two municipal councils and district boards to freeze their salaries.

18.   Qatar allows women to vote, but for a municipal council with only advisory powers.

19.   Plans to curb the powers of municipal councils could make Hong Kong less democratic, a City University academic warned yesterday.

20.   A government spokesman, Tilemahos Hitiris, said Avramopoulos indicated he would ask the municipal council to withdraw the injunction request.