1.   And he proposed that the leftist candidate in the presidential race, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, take the lead in the movement.

2.   Abruptly, his opponents, Francisco Labastida of the ruling party and the leftist candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, agreed to get together with him to discuss the rules.

3.   After a second consecutive defeat, the leftist candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, has been severely weakened and there is no natural leader to take his place.

4.   But a well-known leftist candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, is also running for the presidency, so the opposition vote is split, which helps Labastida.

5.   But the leftist candidate, Amado Avendano, maintains that he won and that the count was distorted by the government.

6.   Conveniently for Putin, two fringe leftist candidates also siphon off some Communist support.

7.   Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, the leftist candidate in the presidential contest, refused to unite with Fox in the battle to oust the PRI.

8.   Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the leftist candidate in the presidential contest, refused to unite with Fox in the battle to oust the PRI.

9.   Fox squabbled with Labastida and leftist candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas while reporters watched in disbelief.

10.   In the end, Delanoe squeaked by with a slim margin, the first time that a leftist candidate had won in Paris for more than a century.