21.   As the campaign began, Hasina completed a five-year term as prime minister and handed power to a caretaker administration to oversee the voting.

22.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic responded to international pressure to step aside by handing his powers to an equally nationalist deputy.

23.   Carlsson, an old-guard socialist who rose under late Prime Minister Olof Palme, would hand power to Sahlin without a national election.

24.   Constitutionally barred from serving a second consecutive term as president, Aristide reluctantly handed power to successor Rene Preval.

25.   Eight students were among those who died in the worst unrest since former President Suharto quit in May and handed power to his longtime protege, B.J. Habibie.

26.   Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide increased pressure on the Dominican government to address the issue before handing power to Preval in February.

27.   From around the world came demands he hand power back to a democratic government.

28.   He expressed worry over handing power for pardons over to regional authorities, where alleged reforms could actually just disguise a greater potential for corruption.

29.   He hands power over to his vice president, Festus Mogae, on Monday.

30.   His successor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, has vowed repeatedly to hand power over to a civilian government in May.