31.   Looking for change in hopes of better lives, many Dominicans got a second chance to elect a successor to longtime President Joaquin Balaguer on Sunday.

32.   No successor was elected by parliament, and many presidential powers passed on to Meciar, who promptly canceled the referendum.

33.   Now he must fill the bigger hole in the College of Cardinals, the body that will elect his successor.

34.   Parliament tries to elect presidential successor.

35.   Party authorities will meet in the next few days to elect a successor.

36.   President Petru Lucinschi called for the elections after the legislature failed four times in December to elect a successor.

37.   President Petru Lucinschi, whose term is expiring, called for the election after the legislature failed four times in December to elect a successor.

38.   Slovakia has been without an elected president since early March after Michal Kovac ended his term of office and the deeply divided parliament failed to elect a successor.

39.   The deeply divided parliament failed to elect a successor.

40.   The big questions now looming are how long the so-called provisional legislature will last, and when Hong Kong will be allowed to elect its successor.