61.   The Albanian Election Commission officially announced Saturday that the governing Socialist Paty won nationwide local elections held earlier this month.

62.   The Bosnian peace accord hands a key role to OSCE, which is supposed to oversee the nationwide elections due by September.

63.   The dashing young ex-Communist Aleksander Kwasniewski won nearly half of the vote in a straw poll Sunday that comes three weeks before nationwide presidential elections.

64.   The center-left Socialists are looking for their fifth consecutive victory in nationwide elections after winning the last local, presidential, European parliament and general ballots.

65.   The Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, announced Tuesday it will pull out of the nationwide municipal elections.

66.   The government which they will choose must write a new constitution and oversee preparations for nationwide elections.

67.   The groups want Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to quit and hold nationwide elections under a caretaker government.

68.   The government they will choose must write a new constitution and oversee preparations for nationwide elections.

69.   The nationwide local elections held Tuesday are being watched closely as an indicator of whether the anti-immigrant far right is making inroads into generally tolerant and relaxed Denmark.

70.   The party leadership considered suggestions to tone up the party apparatus in preparation for nationwide parliamentary elections next year, UNI said.