The new President, who won a bare 50.7 percent majority after the most tumultuous election in modern Mexican history, said the debt challenge required greater national unity and discipline.

Ms. Kohl-Welles acknowledged that as the Legislature, torn apart by the tumultuous election for governor, is tackling so many other things, the bill is not a high priority.

"We have been through a tumultuous election, but for the first time since this present form of government was established we have had an open election."

Frano Gondola was re-elected as the municipal chief in 1894 after a tumultuous election.

To the Editor: Whoever emerges from this tumultuous election as our next president (front page, Nov. 20) ought to commemorate his victory at an inaugural banquet.

Although this was the first election in Ethiopia since the tumultuous 2005 general election, several opposition parties sat out the election.

The sharp tone highlighted the lost promise of the 107th Congress, which came into office after the tumultuous 2000 election as the most closely divided Congress since the Eisenhower administration.

House Republicans elected to stay with the leadership that had led them through the tumultuous election.

On 3 November 2001, he was appointed lijsttrekker for the CDA in the tumultuous May 2002 parliamentary elections.

Stanhope was defeated in a tumultuous election.