31.   Barak may be faced with the need to call new elections soon.

32.   Barak has only a one-vote majority in the Parliament and faces the likelihood of having to call an election.

33.   Berlusconi is urging Scalfaro to dismiss Parliament and call new elections.

34.   Birendra then called new elections.

35.   Blair does not need to call an election for another four years, and a serious challenge to his party leadership would be very difficult.

36.   A disadvantage is that no Israeli prime minister who has called early elections has won them.

37.   A national election must be called by early May.

38.   A drumbeat for calling early elections started building almost from the moment that Air Force One left Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

39.   A president can choose, as Chirac did, to dissolve parliament and call early elections.

40.   A petition drive forced the City Council to call the election.