Alongside ceremonial mayors and various types of county or city council, Englishmen are already blessed (or cursed) with a profusion of centrally funded bodies such as Regional Development Agencies, Regional Assemblies, various Government Offices (of the North West and South East, for example) and more, almost all of them unelected.

ECONOMIST: City government

The Palestinian Authority had threatened to call off the parliamentary elections because the Israeli government had said it would not allow Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem to vote at post offices.

CNN: Likud chief: Time for 4 ministers to quit