1.   An interim mayor will be appointed by the city commission.

2.   But the mayor there is appointed by the president.

3.   During that time, the mayor has been appointed by the president, who inevitably has also been from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.

4.   Opposition candidates won control of the City Council, which is supposed to appoint the mayor.

5.   Previously the mayor was appointed by the president.

6.   The defection of two opposition deputies in the Zagreb City Council would give the governing party the majority it needs to appoint a mayor.

7.   Until now the mayor was appointed directly by the President.

8.   Until now, the mayor has been appointed by the president.

9.   But their loose coalition virtually collapsed during more than a year of stalemate against Tudjman, who refused to allow the opposition to appoint the mayor.

10.   Previously, the president appointed the mayor.