1.   Local and parliamentary elections are due this autumn, and Mr Milosevic May hold the presidential poll early, possibly in September.

2.   A few have forged ahead, brushing aside inadequate laws and fears of political instability before the presidential poll next year.

3.   A presidential poll last month ended without a clear winner.

4.   A new presidential poll of Ohio voters by the University of Cincinnati has Bush leading Gore by eight points.

5.   But presidential polls in Russia and the United States and a national election in India could complicate that task.

6.   George W. Bush and Al Gore are locked in a dead heat in two new presidential polls, evidence that Gore is holding his post-convention poll bounce.

7.   He has surfaced in Russian presidential polls, and few believe his denials of interest in ruling a united Russia and Belarus.

8.   Here the political party leading in early presidential polls, the Broad Front, is a coalition of Marxists and Social Democrats.

9.   President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah asked Parliament on Wednesday to extend his mandate for six months after his government called off a presidential poll due in February, citing insecurity.

10.   Steve Forbes has jumped into second place in most GOP presidential polls.