This year, with support from peacekeepers, and international groups, we have experienced the first democratic transfer of power from a democratic elected government to an opposition party.

The grand inaugural get-together is a new Latin American tradition, a way of celebrating yet another peaceful and democratic transfer of power.

Over the last 10 years, though, without the world noticing, Bangladesh has had three democratic transfers of power, in two of which - are you ready?

It was the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history.

The ceremony, he noted, completed the first democratic transfer of executive power in all of Russia's 1,100-year history.

A3 Work stoppages in Nicaragua have paralyzed dozens of key services and industries just days before the country's first democratic transfer of power.

Ghana, which marked its first peaceful democratic transfer of power in 2000, is often cited as a regional model of reform.

Elections and peaceful, democratic transfers of power have become the regional norm.

Mr. Chen's election in 2000, with 39 percent of the popular vote, marked the first democratic transfer of power in Chinese history.

Mr. Wahid was elected in late 1999, in Indonesia's first democratic transfer of power after nearly three decades under the military rule of Suharto.