21.   Croat municipal leaders said they were severing contact with the EU and rejecting any further efforts by its mission to reunify the city.

22.   Elections are held every five years for the president, National Assembly, and municipal leaders.

23.   Financial unrest and disappointment with politicians could discourage many Romanians from showing up at the polls and picking new municipal leaders Sunday.

24.   In a statement Friday, Annan said the U.N. mission would begin transferring administrative responsibilities to the elected municipal leaders once the results were certified.

25.   Just outside of Pristina Saturday, hundreds of Serbs attended the burial of Zvonko Bojanic, a municipal leader who was brutally killed.

26.   Municipal leaders protest that in his whirlwind tours to their communities to bolster their civil defense systems, Fujimori tramples over local authorities with his autocratic leadership style.

27.   Municipal leaders said the millions of dollars spent stabilizing highways and buildings against earthquakes over the past decade paid off.

28.   Police have encircled the house, which belongs to a local municipal leader.

29.   Voters will also choose a new Congress and municipal leaders.

30.   Weeks later, a municipal union leader in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla was executed, sparking two days of nationwide labor protests.