1.   Both the parties are treating the local elections as a dry run.

2.   Prime Minister Major favors elections as a path to talks since paramilitary groups have refused to disarm.

3.   Richards and his team have already started planning his campaign for election as party leader.

4.   The presentation of that election as a popular referendum prevented a new populist attack on the Unionist government.

5.   U.N. observers described the election as a parody of democratic process.

6.   He entered the election as the clear favourite.

7.   ...his election as president.

8.   He saw his election as a mandate to move Civic Forum to the right of the political spectrum and to proceed rapidly to a market economy.

9.   Shortly after his election as President in May, Lee Teng-hui announced a presidential amnesty for all political prisoners.

10.   He also suggested that, should he fail to win the Republican nomination, he would consider contesting the presidential election as an independent.