1.   The election is billed as the most genuine exercise in democracy since the Islamic government came to power after overthrowing the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza.

2.   The two strikingly different candidates are billing the election as a referendum on how real the renaissance has been.

3.   Democrats billed the election as a choice between freedom and economic growth for this impoverished Balkan land, or a possible return to the Communist-era isolation.

4.   His party has billed the elections as a struggle to keep Serb territory united.

5.   International envoys bill the elections as key to the Dayton peace accords.

6.   The local elections are billed as a warm-up for parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for fall.

7.   For the most part the election has been billed as a battle of democracy versus demagogy, reform versus reaction, west versus east.