1.   Jack Lang, left, a Socialist who is the mayor of Blois, campaigns for an assembly seat with his deputy, Michel Fromet.

2.   John Burton, who later also went to Congress, is being term-limited out of his assembly seat and is running for the state Senate.

3.   The Fretilin party, which led the independence struggle against Indonesia, was expected to win the most assembly seats.

4.   The next step will be selecting executive positions, which will be divided along clan lines, much like the assembly seats.

5.   After the split, each contending faction held five assembly seats.

6.   Assembly seats are allotted under a complicated formula not entirely reflecting the popular vote.

7.   Assembly seats, however, are allotted under a complicated formula not entirely reflecting the popular vote.

8.   At present, only candidates approved by the Communist Party can run for an assembly seat.

9.   But the distribution of assembly seats reveals the true status of tribals in the political landscape.

10.   Coalition government wins approval to retake U.N. assembly seat.