71.   All three major parties tried to find junior coalition partners but without success, until Ciller and Yilmaz finally agreed on a formula which includes a rotating premiership.

72.   But his left-wing Meretz party, the junior coalition government partner, expressed anger that Sarid, who wanted the interior ministry, was snubbed.

73.   Ciller had said earlier she would be resigning after the failure of negotiations with her junior coalition partner on the firing of a police chief.

74.   The Reform Party has been the junior coalition member in the partnership with the dominant Coalition Party of Prime Minister Tiit Vahi.

75.   The remaining seats were likely to be shared by junior coalition partners Irish Labour, Progressive Democrat and Democratic Left parties.

76.   The royalists are a junior coalition partner with the CPP in the national government.

77.   The small nationalist New Zealand First party will be the junior coalition partner, with leader Winston Peters becoming deputy prime minister and treasurer.

78.   Prime Minister Hashimoto started bargaining with two junior coalition partners over the next government after his Liberal Democratic Party fell short of a majority in the general election.

79.   Similar suggestions were made by members of the opposition Social Democratic and junior coalition Free Democrat parties.

80.   The decision came on the same day that Prime Minister Tansu Ciller resigned in Ankara due to a quarrel with a junior coalition partner in her government.