31.   The president no longer has the power to dismiss elected assemblies but he can impose presidential rule in case of an emergency.

32.   Three decades later, an elected constitutional assembly representing all races approved a new democratic charter promising equal rights for all.

33.   As the Selection Committee met, Patten unleashed another broadside at the dismantling of the elected assembly that he fathered through ballot-box reforms initiated four years ago.

34.   At present nearly half the population favours an elected Welsh assembly.

35.   China has said it will dissolve the elected assembly as soon as it takes power.

36.   Voynet is calling for parity of the sexes in all elected assemblies and says this should be written into the constitution.

37.   It would exist for up to a year after the handover before ceding to an elected assembly.

38.   It is also tasked with setting up an appointed, temporary legislature to succeed the elected local assembly, which will be abolished on the handover.

39.   Kuwait has the only elected legislative assembly among the Gulf Arab states.

40.   Labour has announced plans to set up elected assemblies in Scotland and Wales.