1. ECOWAS gave the interim government one year to hold elections.

2. In April 19 Acheson told Rhee flatly that he had to hold elections.

3. The Democratic Party allowed only four states to hold elections before February 5, 2008.

4. The military intends to hand over power to a caretaker government and hold elections within six months.

5. However, National Liberal politician Gustav Stresemann persuaded the other centrist parties that the situation was still too turbulent to hold elections.

6. The plan has been for the rival armies to demobilise, to unify(Sentencedict.com), and then to hold elections to decide who rules.

7. Aung San Suu Kyi, U Tin Oo and Aung Gyi initially publicly rejected the SLORC's offer to hold elections the following year, claiming that they could not be held freely under military rule.