41.   Former French education minister Lionel Jospin said Wednesday he was willing to stand as the Socialist Party candidate in presidential elections due next April-May.

42.   The party will also have to talk its way around voting accords reached with the communists in municipal elections due next June.

43.   The Nigerian government will disqualify from power anyone who engages in political violence in elections due next year, President Olusegun Obasanjo said this weekend.

44.   The protests come ahead of local, upper house and presidential elections due this year.

45.   The party will also have to talk its way around voting accords reached with the communists in municipal elections due next June, a month after the presidentials.

46.   The small Palestinian Communist party announced Friday it would stand against PLO leader Yasser Arafat in elections due next year.

47.   The succession question is also the center of parliamentary elections due next year.

48.   Under the constitution, his current mandate is his last and he is not allowed to stand in presidential elections due late this year.

49.   Their failure to allow returns is cited by monitors of the upcoming elections as a major flaw in the Bosnian elections due Saturday.

50.   Widespread abuse of the voter registration process forced the OSCE to scrap municipal elections also due Saturday.