1.   However, the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections.

2.   Local assembly elections in large units would be held separately, by the end of June.

3.   A presidential election soon after the assembly elections is what the Bosnian Serb hard-liners and their Russian backers were demanding as a condition for assenting to the assembly elections.

4.   Depending on their outcome, state assembly elections would follow later this year, something which the separatists virulently oppose.

5.   Local, statewide and national assembly elections since December were judged to be generally fair by election monitors.

6.   Regional assembly elections allow many splinter parties to win seats under a proportional representation system, unlike the two-stage voting system that chooses the national Parliament.

7.   The head of a powerful state party, the All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam, she has been out campaigning for state assembly elections.

8.   The need for action on the Karadzic propaganda machine is acute because of the assembly election called by Mrs. Plavsic.

9.   They can suspend the legislature and restore direct rule from London or they can schedule new assembly elections.

10.   Police suspect that Syed was killed to spread terror in the state where India plans to hold state assembly election later this year.