21.   After a new, reformist government was elected in September, Meciar handed his seat in Parliament over to Lexa.

22.   Costa Rica is a special case in that it just had national elections last Sunday and a new government was elected.

23.   Her government was elected last August.

24.   Hong Kong does not elect its government, which is led by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.

25.   In Burundi the Hutu majority has elected a government powerless to control its Tutsi army and courts.

26.   In western India, politician Manohar Joshi became the chief minister of Maharashtra state when his right-wing Hindu coalition government was elected in February.

27.   Lafontaine floated the idea of managed exchange rates soon after his Social Democratic government was elected in September, but found little support.

28.   Last June a new government was elected.

29.   Markovic was fired in January when the new Serbian government was elected.

30.   Markovic was fired last month when the new Serb government was elected.