31.   Thousands of international poll watchers joined the Mexican observers to oversee the elections.

32.   Three of them never took their seats since the conservative Guardian Council, which oversees elections, invalidated their victories by claiming election fraud.

33.   Opposition parties have staged periodic strikes for nearly two years to pressure Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to step down and allow a caretaker government to oversee new elections.

34.   Opposition parties told Robinson they want a caretaker government headed by retired judges to oversee elections, party representatives said.

35.   A caretaker government took over from Hasina in July to oversee the elections.

36.   A major contention has been the absence of an independent electoral commission to oversee the elections.

37.   A group of international monitors has arrived in Yemen to oversee parliament elections next month.

38.   A round of talks in Moscow produced a cease-fire agreement last Monday and a preliminary accord on a national reconciliation commission to oversee new elections.

39.   Accusing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of corruption and incompetence, they want her to step down and allow a caretaker government to oversee early elections, but she refuses.

40.   Access to the media so far has been limited to the CPP, which also dominates institutions assigned to organize and oversee the elections, critics say.