31.   Before taking office, De la Rua was the first elected mayor of Buenos Aires, a position previously named by the federal government.

32.   But as four communities announced referendum results Friday, only one had accepted a U.S.-style elected mayor.

33.   But eight people are battling to become the first elected mayor of this teaming Latin American capital come Sunday.

34.   But under the new bill, it is state-appointed regional authorities, rather than the locally elected mayor, who would grant, or deny, permission.

35.   But when the newly elected leftist mayor of San Salvador talks, he can sound more like free-market advocate Milton Friedman than Karl Marx.

36.   Cilla, elected mayor of the southern town of Ducos eight months ago, kept the town in the hands of the left-wing Socialist Federation of Martinique.

37.   Despite the opposition victory, he has twice exercised his veto power to keep the elected mayor from taking office.

38.   Directly elected mayors form part of plans by the governing Labor Party to reform local government.

39.   Four English districts have voted to introduce American-style elected mayors, while three more have rejected the notion, according to results released Friday.

40.   Gov. Alvaro Uribe, who had named military mayors for the towns after the elected mayors were seized, said the freed officials would be allowed to resume control.