(next to be held NA
March 2002); House of Representatives - last held 8 March 1998 (next
to be held NA March 2002)

election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - PL 50%, PSC
24%, smaller parties (many aligned with conservatives) 26%; seats by
party - PL 58, PSC 28, smaller parties 16; House of Representatives
- percent of vote by party - PL 52%, PSC 17%, other 31%; seats by
party - PL 98, PSC 52, indigenous parties 2, others 11

Comoros:
bicameral legislature consists of the Senate (15 seats:
five from each island); members selected by regional councils for
six-year terms) and a Federal Assembly or Assemblee Federale (43
seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms);
note - the Federal Assembly was dissolved following the coup of 30
April 1999

elections: Federal Assembly - last held 1 and 8 December 1996 (next
to be held NA)

election results: Federal Assembly - percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party - RND 39, FNJ 3, independent 1

note: the constitution stipulates that only parties that win six
seats in the Federal Assembly (two from each island) are permitted
to be in opposition, but if no party accomplishes that, the second
most successful party will be in opposition; in the elections of
December 1996 the FNJ appeared to qualify as opposition

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
a 300-member Transitional
Constituent Assembly established in August 2000

elections: NA; members of the Transitional Constituent Assembly
were appointed by former President KABILA

Congo, Republic of the:
unicameral National Transitional Council (75
seats, members elected by reconciliation forum of 1,420 delegates on
NA January 1998); note - the National Transitional Council replaced
the bicameral Parliament

elections: National Transitional Council - last held NA January
1998 (next to be held NA 2001); note - at that election the National
Transitional Council is to be replaced by a bicameral assembly

election results: National Transitional Council - percent of vote
by party - NA%; seats by party - NA

Cook Islands:
unicameral Parliament (25 seats; members elected by
popular vote to serve five-year terms)

elections: last held NA June 1999 (next to be held by NA 2004)

election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party -
CIP 12, DAP 12, NAP 1

note: the House of Ariki (chiefs) adv