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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:14 am

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This time round, fewer voters dazzled by high-profile office-seekers

Many celebrity candidates were elected in Sunday’s House of Councillors proportional representation election, but unlike in the previous elections none of them garnered an overwhelming number of votes.

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