21.   A weak leftist opposition is pitted against a strong national consensus around generally pro-business politics.

22.   Amado Avendano Figueroa, a journalist-lawyer of the leftist opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party, suggested Friday that could provoke the rebels.

23.   Among those most frequently criticized is Treasury Minister Emil Wasacz, whom the leftist opposition accuses of selling state enterprises too cheaply.

24.   An all-out ruckus ensued with an equal number of members and supporters of the leftist opposition Popular Democratic Movement party.

25.   At home, the French government was under fire from the leftist opposition over the accord, which they saw as a sellout of French sovereignty.

26.   But the issue has bitterly divided both the governing conservative coalition and the leftist opposition.

27.   But the government and the leftist opposition disagree over the number of provinces.

28.   But leftist opposition leader Bulent Ecevit, of the Democratic Left Party, refused to go along.

29.   But the leftist opposition in parliament complains the plan is too costly and is being rushed through without the necessary preparations and explanations.

30.   But they warned that past governments had promised reform only to be forced to back down by militant labor unions and leftist opposition.