21.   The local elections will be held this Thursday.

22.   The plan has to remain confidential at least until the local elections are out of the way.

23.   Protests at rigging of GDR local elections.

24.   Local elections in the GDR.

25.   The ruling countered moves in both Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein to enfranchise certain categories of foreigners in local elections.

26.   Turnout for the local elections was exceptionally low, but was much higher in the nine districts where National Assembly seats were at issue.

27.   The opposition Party for Peace and Democracy protested that this violated a previous agreement to hold local elections simultaneously in large and small areas.

28.   Political parties were not formally authorized to field candidates in small constituencies in local elections.

29.   The government claimed that the decision was a procedural one and that holding local elections in November would conflict with the elections for the DCC.

30.   And finally -- I took it as a compliment when the local Councillor took credit for the upgrading, prior to the local elections!