In its written form today " Kurdish " has two regional standards, namely Kurmanji in the northern parts of the geographical region of Kurdistan, and Sorani further east and south.

According to regional Kurdish rebel commanders, Iraqi aircraft conducted up to 14 bombings in sorties of seven to eight planes each ; helicopters coordinating the operation were also seen.

Most recently, the Iraq War has displaced the regional Assyrian community, as its people have faced ethnic and religious persecution at the hands of Islamic extremists and Arab and Kurdish nationalists.

Artists now enjoy a good support from the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan, and Kurdish artists and writers are encouraged to move and work there.

* LA Times: Kurdish opposition makes strong showing in Iraq regional elections

* Kurdish language: 16-26 million speakers, regional status in Iraq

Iraq's Kurds now strongly resent Arabs still residing in Ba ' ath-era Kirkuk housing, and view them as a barrier to Kirkuk's recognition as a Kurdish city ( and regional seat ) in an increasingly sovereign Kurdish Autonomous Region.

Although both the Turks and the British used Kurdish tribes to instigate cross-border conflicts, local shaykhs recruited Kurds to revolt against the regional powers.

These investments are concentrated primarily in vehicle assembly and parts supply, the construction industry / cement, raw materials processing / aluminum and regional dairy farming.

A pre-condition of having a regional assembly was for the whole area to move to unitary authority status.

The country was divided into 7 semi-autonomous regions, each with its own regional assembly.

The only electoral successes were achieved by the Ajeya Bharat Party in India, which elected a legislator to a state assembly, and by the Croatian NLP, which elected a member of a regional assembly in 1993.

The presbytery sends representatives to a broader regional or national assembly, generally known as the General Assembly, although an intermediate level of a synod sometimes exists.

: within the capital's regional assembly however, there also exist two so-called Community Commissions ( fixed numbers, not an automatic repartition of the regional assembly ), a Dutch-speaking one and a Francophone one, for various matters split up by linguistic community but under Brussels ' regional competence, and even ' joint community commissions ' consisting of both for certain institutions that could be split up but are not.

Competences and powers at voivodeship level are shared between the voivode ( governor ), the sejmik ( regional assembly ) and the executive.

It was no longer practical to convene all the Macedonians in a single general assembly, and the answer to this problem was the creation of four regional districts, each with a regional assembly.

The permanent exchequer of Normandy, which had been installed in Rouen in 1499 by George of Amboise, was transformed into a regional administrative assembly by Francis I in 1515 and up to the time of the Revolution was the administrative centre of the region.

A regional assembly and regional development agency were added in 1999.

Gorzów serves as the seat of the centrally appointed voivode or governor, while Zielona Góra is the seat of the elected regional assembly ( sejmik ) and the executive elected by that assembly, headed by the marszałek.

Its county or regional assembly is the highest political body in the region and its members are elected by the electorate, as opposed to the county administrative board, that guards the national interests in the county under the chairmanship of the county governor ( landshövding in Swedish ).

The history of Vetlanda goes back to at least the medieval age when it was the seat for the regional assembly called þing ( thing ).

In elections to the regional assemblies of the Soviet Union's constituent republics, nationalists as well as radical reformers swept the board.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

The elections for Ethiopia's first popularly-chosen national parliament and regional legislatures were held in May and June 1995.

* 1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.

In elections to the regional assemblies of the Soviet Union's constituent republics, nationalists swept the board.

Most democracies have partly proportional electoral systems, where several political parties are proportionally represented in the national parliaments, in proportion to the total numbers of votes of the parties in the regional or national elections.

A trend toward two large coalitions ( one on the center-left and the other on the center-right ) emerged from the April 1995 regional elections.

A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.

In the 1996 general elections the Natural Law Party ran candidates only in the Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol region, who won 8, 298 votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 5, 842 for the Senate ( about 1 % on a regional basis, 0. 2 % in the whole country ).

He again called for multi-candidate elections for regional and local legislatures and party first secretaries and insisted on the separation of the government apparatus from party bodies at the regional level, as well.

Municipal elections followed in late 1992, in which the MLSTP came back to win a majority of seats on five of seven regional councils.

The population under Moroccan control participates in countrywide and regional Moroccan elections.

** In French regional elections, the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for French Democracy win in a landslide, capturing 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies.

The Métis people mandate these governance structures through province-wide ballot box elections held at regular intervals for regional and provincial leadership.

The TRP does not participate in national, regional, or local elections.

Unlike in many of the neighbouring states, the small or regional parties have not had much success in the state elections.

In the 2004 regional elections, Le Pen intended to run for office in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d ' Azur region but was prevented from doing so because he did not meet the conditions for being a voter in that region: he neither lived there nor was registered as a taxpayer there.

However, he will be the FN's top candidate in the region for the 2010 regional elections.

Since his accession to the Presidency, the President's party, known as the Constitutional Democratic Rally ( RCD ), rallied majorities in local, regional, and national elections.

November 2003 municipal elections were conducted freely, returning a majority of supporters of the president, but also significant numbers of independent and regional opposition figures.

In the 1992 regional elections, the Greens obtained 6. 8 % of votes and the presidency of Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

Only one regional referendum has been held to date to seek consent for the introduction of direct elections elsewhere — in the northeast of England — and this was soundly rejected by the electorate.

The first regional elections were held on May 8, 1949.