1.   Parliament elects a President for a four-year term who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament.

2.   A new government is sworn in headed by opposition leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.

3.   The PRI also disputed the splitting in two of the Ministry for Regional Affairs and Institutional Reforms, formerly headed by the pro-PRI Antonio Maccanico.

4.   One mechanism would make the newly created agency semi-autonomous, headed by a new under secretary of energy and answerable directly to the secretary.

5.   Barak is also holding coalition talks with the Likud party, formerly headed by Netanyahu.

6.   But the Yabloko party, headed by economist Grigory Yavlinsky, and most Moscow newspapers have alleged that it was politically motivated.

7.   Cotti holds the current rotating chair of the group, currently headed by a troika consisting of Switzerland, Hungary and Denmark.

8.   Fire has struck a second government agency previously headed by an official whose confirmation as tourism secretary was blocked because of corruption allegations.