51.   The conviction automatically stripped Azimbek Beknazarov of his parliament seat, angering his supporters.

52.   The feud is rooted in how parliament seats will be distributed after the next elections.

53.   The governing Social Democratic Party retained the biggest share of parliament seats in national elections Sunday despite losing substantial support to the main opposition Center Party.

54.   The former ruling nationalist party of the late president, Franjo Tudjman, which holds about a third of parliament seats, protested the indictments.

55.   The governing party won all the parliament seats in the previous vote that some complained was fraudulent.

56.   The leader of the opposition, L.K. Advani of the Bharatiya Janata Party, quit his parliament seat a day earlier.

57.   The judges said no democratic country in the world linked state funding to the number of parliament seats won.

58.   The only other party likely to win any parliament seats is the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, former Milosevic allies.

59.   The power behind his regime is widely believed to be fundamentalist Muslim cleric Hassan Turabi, who was elected to a parliament seat in Khartoum.

60.   The remaining four parliament seats are held by the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, the latter being four time zones away.