1.   The president would no longer be chosen by voters but by an electoral college of supposedly nonpartisan locally elected deputies.

2.   Five directly elected deputies are sent to the National Assembly in Paris and three indirectly elected members to the Senate.

3.   The USD deputies boycotted the vote, in which Snezhana Botusharova of the UDF and Kadir Dzhalil Kadir of the MRF were elected deputy speakers.

4.   Attempts have also been made in the Soviet Union to strengthen democratic control of administration by augmenting the authority of elected deputies to exercise an ombudsman-like role.

5.   A newly elected deputy from the Islamic-oriented Virtue party, Merve Kavakci, says she will insist on taking her oath while wearing her head scarf.

6.   But Barghouti is also an elected deputy in the Palestinian Parliament.

7.   RWE said Alwin Fitting was elected deputy chairman.

8.   The interview was interrupted frequently by phone calls from elected deputies, friends and political allies.

9.   They fielded a female presidential candidate, and a woman was elected deputy chairwoman of the loya jirga.