51.   Parties are divided over how to distribute parliamentary seats and how to deal with the insurgents who control wide swaths of the south.

52.   A former court poet to late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, he is a senator for the Greater Romania Party, which controls one-fourth of parliamentary seats.

53.   A disputed parliamentary seat allocation formula is also on the agenda.

54.   A court upheld a ruling Monday to strip a millionaire businessman of his parliamentary seat because of his dual nationality.

55.   A hotly contested election for a parliamentary seat threatened to plunge Lebanon into a political crisis Monday after both opposition and government candidates claimed victory.

56.   A means of widespread local participation has been established by reviving the panchayat system and today one third of parliamentary seats have been reserved for women.

57.   A ruling party legislator accused of corruption battles a former war correspondent for the local parliamentary seat.

58.   A spokesman noted the government has the power to fill vacant parliamentary seats by holding special local elections, and would not have to call a general election.

59.   A presidential communique issued late Saturday evening did not specify a date, but it called on Cameroonians to register and vote in balloting for parliamentary seats.

60.   A series of opinion polls has predicted the party will win the most parliamentary seats in elections that begin next Monday, but not enough to govern without partners.