51.   Local elections for district and municipal councils will begin later this month and last for several months.

52.   Mayor Catherine Megret, wife of far-right National Front leader Bruno Megret, announced the measure last month after its approval by the Vitrolles municipal council.

53.   Members of the municipal council are nominated because Ms. Bhutto has refused to allow local elections in Karachi until the violence subsides.

54.   Members of the municipal council are nominated because Bhutto has refused to allow local elections in Karachi until the violence subsides.

55.   Mr Li did not think the municipal council should be modelled on the Legislative Council.

56.   Municipal councils also have a big problem managing garbage.

57.   Municipal councils -- and the subcommittees, boards and authorities they create -- have always been subject to laws concerning public records and public meetings.

58.   Nationwide elections in Croatia for the upper house of parliament and municipal councils presented the first time that Serbs voted as Croatian citizens after six years of rebellion.

59.   Nouri believes the elections are important event though the Constitution gives municipal councils little power at present.

60.   No formal charges have been brought against those arrested, who include doctors, lawyers, university and high school students, and members of local municipal councils.