ises on traditional matters,
but has no legislative powers

Costa Rica:
unicameral Legislative Assembly or Asamblea Legislativa
(57 seats; members are elected by direct, popular vote to serve
four-year terms)

elections: last held 1 February 1998 (next to be held 3 February
2002)

election results: percent of vote by party - PUSC 41%, PLN 35%,
minority parties 24%; seats by party - PUSC 27, PLN 23, minority
parties 7

Cote d'Ivoire:
unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale
(225 seats; members are elected in single- and multi-district
elections by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms)

elections: elections last held 10 December 2000 with by-elections
on 14 January 2001 (next to be held NA 2005)

election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party -
FPI 96, PDCI-RDA 94, RDR 5, PIT 4, other 2, independents 22, vacant 2

note: a Senate is scheduled to be created in the next full election
in 2005

Croatia:
bicameral Assembly or Sabor consists of the House of
Counties or Zupanijski Dom (68 seats, 63 directly elected by popular
vote, 5 appointed by the president; members serve four-year terms;
note - House of Counties to be abolished in 2001) and House of
Representatives or the Zastupnicki Dom (151 seats; members elected
by popular vote to serve four-year terms)

elections: House of Counties - last held 13 April 1997; House of
Representatives - last held 2-3 January 2000 (next to be held NA
2004)

election results: House of Counties - percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party - HDZ 42, HSLS/HSS 11, HSS 2, IDS 2, SDP/PGS/HNS
2, SDP/HNS 2, HSLS/HSS/HNS 1, HSLS 1; note - in some districts
certain parties ran as coalitions, while in others they ran alone;
House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by
party - HDZ 46, SDP 44, HSLS 24, HSS 17, HSP/HKDU 5, IDS 4, HNS 2,
independents 4, minority representatives 5

Cuba:
unicameral National Assembly of People's Power or Asemblea
Nacional del Poder Popular (601 seats, elected directly from slates
approved by special candidacy commissions; members serve five-year
terms)

elections: last held 11 January 1998 (next to be held in 2003)

election results: percent of vote - PCC 94.39%; seats - PCC 601

Cyprus:
unicameral - Greek Cypriot area: House of Representatives or
Vouli Antiprosopon (80 seats; 56 assigned to the Gr