51.   Eva Mueller, a member of the regional assembly for the former Communists, lives there.

52.   The party is now only represented in the regional assembly of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg and several municipal councils.

53.   The strategy has come under fire from the moderate nationalists of the PNV, which holds power in the autonomous Basque regional assembly.

54.   The Sverdlovsk polls will pit the outgoing governor, Alexei Strakhov, against his predecessor Eduard Rossel, now president of the regional assembly.

55.   The term of the standing regional assembly expires next year.

56.   These include scrapping the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and referendums on creating devolved regional assemblies in Wales and Scotland.

57.   Malik and other separatist leaders have ruled out participating in regional assembly polls which are due in September.

58.   MQM is the main opposition in the regional assembly in Sindh province, of which Karachi is capital.

59.   Regional assemblies in Kazakhstan were set to vote Tuesday in the first of two parliamentary elections this week expected to confirm the power of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

60.   Rakhmonov was earlier chosen to run in the election by the regional assembly in the southern town of Khatlon and the Tajik National Youth Union, Russian radio reported.