1.   About a dozen services were transferred to the directly elected London boroughs.

2.   The bill also includes measures to reform local government by creating directly elected Mayors and cabinets.

3.   Executive power is in the hands of a directly elected President and an appointed Cabinet.

4.   Each is administered by an appointed High Commissioner or Chief Administrator and each has a directly elected Territorial Assembly or Congress.

5.   Commentators contrasted this with the boost given to Yeltsin, his arch rival, by the support in the separate Russian Federation referendum for a directly elected Russian President.

6.   The Supreme Soviets of the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Armenia voted at the end of June to create the posts of directly elected president in their republics.

7.   Five directly elected deputies are sent to the National Assembly in Paris and three indirectly elected members to the Senate.

8.   The DYP was reported to be ready to support the changes, while the SHP was opposed to the creation of a directly elected executive presidency.

9.   New Caledonia is divided into three provinces each of which has its own directly elected assembly elected for up to six years.