41.  The pro-independence National Council of Popular Committees became the first party Tuesday to file its list of candidates for Regional Council elections in March.

42.  With the earlier vote, Democratic Revolution was the first Mexican party to attempt to choose its leadership through a national election.

43.  In Heidelberg, southwestern Germany, a US army spokesman meanwhile said the first advance party of American soldiers for Bosnia would leave Germany Tuesday.

44.  According to a draw, UMP should have been the first party to talk on TV Tuesday, but none of its members turned up in time.

45.  Zyuganov came second in the presidential poll and his party first in parliamentary elections a year ago.

46.  The Liberal Democrats -- the first mainstream party to back the legalisation of cannabis -- said the report did not go far enough.