The 1992 constitution, in another innovation, provided for elections for a governor and a departmental board for each department, also to be held every five years.
However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Minsk deal provided for elections "in co-ordination with, not in line with" Ukrainian plans.
Both provide for election campaign spending caps, public campaign financing, and stricter limits on campaign contributions.
Although many unions provide for election of leaders directly by the membership, Mr. Hoffa, in hailing the vote today, said: "The Teamsters are truly the most democratic union in the world.
"Our Constitution provides for elections, not selections by bigwig bosses, and the people of this state selected him," she said on Saturday as reporters quizzed her about whether her opponent should step aside.
But if differences linger, and the careful schedule that provides for elections in 2009 and a referendum on southern independence in 2011 begins to slip much further, Sudan could find itself sliding back into a swamp deeper even than Darfur's.
Further, the state constitution does not provide for elections for state-wide cabinet-level positions it grants the governor the power to appoint the "principal department heads" for the executive branch.
The purpose of the conference was to discuss and reach an agreement on the terms of an independence constitution, and provide for elections supervised under British authority allowing Zimbabwe Rhodesia to proceed to legal independence.
The armistice convention provided for the election of a National Assembly, which met at Bordeaux in March 1871 to ratify the peace terms.
Opponents of secession reconvened for a second Wheeling convention (June), which pronounced the Richmond government void, established a Restored Government of Virginia that was aligned with the Union, and provided for the election of new state officers for western Virginia.
An agreement between France and India in 1948 provided for an election in France's remaining Indian possessions to choose their political future.
