All adult Eritreans vote for the village representatives who attend these assemblies.

In the midst of the Balkan Mountains, Ochindol is a village representative of the region.

Within a few days word has spread and the village representatives, which is nearly everyone, arrive.

The village representatives and provincial officials reached a peaceful agreement, satisfying the villagers' immediate requests.

Four other village representatives were also detained on 9 December 2011.

In August 1933, the government began registering candidates for village representatives who would cast votes in indirect elections for half of the legislature.

Sigarup was chosen as one of the village representatives and was paid twenty rupees for each of the five days that he attended the course.

Mrs. Clinton has said she sat in on a meeting among village representatives and the president after the election but played no role in the clemency.

All twenty outgoing members were re-elected, of which eight (all of them village representatives) were running unopposed.

The gavundas sometimes had a dual role as village representatives and appointees of the state.