1.   Late last month the supreme court indicted a former Socialist interior minister for his alleged role directing this campaign.

2.   The country had been without a government since just before Christmas, when the Socialist prime minister, Zhan Videnov resigned.

3.   A former former Socialist interior minister, Gramoz Ruci, who is now general secretary of the Socialist party, is similarly excluded.

4.   But he noted that at a recent cabinet session, a socialist minister who was arrested, mistreated and exiled under Pinochet had backed a proposal seeking his release.

5.   Di Mauro once worked as a chauffeur for the central suspect in the investigation, former Socialist minister Alain van der Biest.

6.   Duisenberg faces pressure from Lafontaine and other socialist ministers to set lower rates that take account of growth and employment as well as inflation.

7.   Former socialist minister Alain Van der Biest was released from prison early this month after he was arrested and accused of involvement in the murder of Cools.

8.   Former EU Commission president and Socialist minister Jacques Delors has been mentioned as a candidate.

9.   Former Socialist minister Alain Van der Biest and policeman Richard Taxquet were among the suspects.

10.   In the past two years, four Socialist ministers quit amid charges the Italian aircraft maker Agusta paid bribes in return for a government defense contract.