91.   Zedillo announced Thursday that as president he would break the close ties between the ruling party and the government and would end the centralized selection of party candidates.

92.   Party candidates were often seen campaigning alongside posters of Koizumi, who helped out by giving speeches that drew huge crowds at LDP rallies leading up the election.

93.   Presidential hopeful Eduardo Duhalde, the ruling party candidate, stirred markets with talk of supporting Roman Catholic church proposals calling for leniency for poorer countries with big debts.

94.   Prosecutors say they are also investigating political motives for the murder last March of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the ruling party presidential candidate.

95.   Prospects rise for governing party candidate.

96.   -- Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, will join the DNC to help Gore and other party candidates target female and elderly voters.

97.   A few miles away, the ruling party candidate in Zanzibar, Amani Karume, waited an hour before he was allowed to vote in his home district.

98.   A split has emerged in the Parti Quebecois in recent weeks, pitting Bouchard against hardline separatists rallying behind a potential party candidate who made controversial comments about Jews.

99.   A Yemeni foundation that monitored the polls said Wednesday that local election committees favored ruling party candidates.

100.   A Yemeni foundation that monitored the polls said Wednesday that local election committees favored ruling party candidates and failed to post candidate names and symbols at some polling stations.