Starting this year, all local officials, governors, regents and mayors are directly elected by the people.

Elected officials in Florida represented the voting white majority.

The panel included elected officials, public management experts, academics and administrators.

Voters have a way of holding elected officials accountable for their pronouncements.

Conducting a research in cooperation with the Network of Elected Women in Local Authorities on The female force in Local Authorities Women Elected all over Greece .

Elected officials passivity has stoked popular mistrust, which now threatens the European project.

Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.

Since 1995, the High Representative has been able to bypass the elected parliamentary assembly, and since 1997 has been able to remove elected officials.

Vota Inteligente uses technology to provide Chilean citizens with more information about their elected officials.

The next year, parliament was dissolved and local elected bodies were disbanded.

They are readily understandable by citizens and elected officials and serve as a powerful rhetorical symbol.

Xinhua announced that local officials responsible for the violence might be prosecuted.

Similarly, women were elected at 82 of the Jewish local authorities and only at 4 of the Arab local authorities.

Officials who did not do their jobs must be dismissed, and elected officials whose policies aggravated the devastation wrought by Katrina must be removed from office.

Unfortunately, the Commission composed mostly of elected officials, rather than experts wasted its time in political squabbles.

The elected officials who received the Government Performance Project final report were often not the officials who had been present when the analysis was conducted, for example.

Occasionally, China s government takes action against local officials whose crimes are considered egregious.

This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) provided training to 795 male and female candidates in the local elections and is developing a training programme for elected female officials in cooperation with the National Institute for Public Administration.

Meanwhile, donors sheer clout dilutes the accountability of developing countries officials and elected representatives to their own people.

Sensible officials resist this, but they need political cover elected representatives who will support them on Capitol Hill.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

The re election of moderate Hassan Rouhani as president alongside an increase in registered women candidates, as well as the number of elected women officials, signals hope for an Iran where women s voices matter at both the national and local level.

Gubernatorial elections were abolished six years ago, and even elected city mayors have been progressively replaced by appointed officials.

Elected officials everywhere must adjust, to varying degrees, to fulfill the expectations of those who put them in office.

Governmental decentralization often results in local government structures that are more open to the participation of women, both as elected local councilors and as the clients of local government services.

Local authorities are closer to problems than national officials tucked away in a country s capital.

Communists secured strong representation in the popularly elected National Committees, the new organs of local administration.

Women had begun to be elected as village heads and to area councils and local government.

The proportion of women elected to local people's councils at all levels had also increased slightly.

(b) Local officials and local partners were trained to promote the participation of local agencies, networking within or between the project sites, and to better understand rural urban migration issues

But what you're going to find eventually is you may need to actually get elected officials to help you out.

But even more significantly, its intentions addressed a cardinal question for Japan who should rule, bureaucratic mandarins or elected officials?

Principals, be they investors or voters, determine the incentives of agents, be they asset managers or elected officials and policymakers.

What those forecasting the eurozone s collapse overlooked was the commitment of elected officials and their constituents to the European project.

Bad leadership and lack of political will on the part of elected leaders and public officials breed corruption and poverty.

Over time, the progress of those institutions in meeting the objectives of citizens, elected officials and other stakeholders becomes critical.

Local government laws have often been violated municipal councillors and local mayors are not elected in accordance with the law, but appointed by presidential decree.

The United Nations delegation and local officials supported the creation, jointly by international donors and local stakeholders, of innovative and collaborative approaches to local economic development and community mobilization and empowerment.

At the local level, a growing number of women had been elected to office in recent years.

Last year, Chávez won a referendum that he had called to abolish term limits for presidents and other senior elected officials.

He says that he was arrested after spreading word about a crime that allegedly involved local officials.

Local Fatah officials want support from their leader, Yassir Arafat, to take firm control of the territory.

Since that time, the elected officials and staff of the Court have worked hard to prepare the Court for its judicial operations.

During the period under review, the UNOCI Rule of Law Unit met regularly with the local judiciary, including the National Union of Magistrates and local prison officials.