1.   Both groups were reported to have expressed their willingness to support the Lakas-NUCD coalition in the new legislature.

2.   The National Assembly also voted to allow President Andr Kolingba to rule by decree until a new multiparty legislature was elected.

3.   Already there is intense jockeying for leadership positions and posturing for the moral high ground in the new legislature.

4.   And with new legislatures being sworn in across the country this month, tax cuts are clearly on the horizon.

5.   Blair had set the first deadline in the hopes that the transfer could occur on Thursday, when new legislatures in Scotland and Wales took on their legislative authority.

6.   A new legislature selected by Beijing will also be sworn in.

7.   A new legislature selected by Beijing was also be sworn in.

8.   But important decisions will require the assent of two of the three leaders, and when any one feels aggrieved he can appeal to the new national legislature.

9.   But supporters of the agreement worry that a new legislature, with fresh faces and new priorities, will not be able to make the Headwaters agreement a priority.

10.   Chavez will have less than a veto-proof majority in the new legislature to push whatever economic program his administration puts together.