31.   Some executives are still concerned about Lagos, in large part because many in his Socialist party remain lukewarm about the free market.

32.   Since he moved forward elections last July, Gonzalez has coyly avoided the issue of his candidacy, saying the socialist party will decide.

33.   That measure has drawn a barrage of criticism from the unions and the opposition socialist party.

34.   The collapse of the Soviet model is a fake issue, she said, since the largest European socialist parties had repudiated it long before.

35.   The opposition Socialist party said it may halt the sale if it wins.

36.   The reform the conservative government is pushing through is not fundamentally different from what a government led by the socialist party, currently in opposition, would carry out.

37.   The Socialist party needs their votes to ensure they have a majority in the National Assembly.

38.   The scramble for power has already begun in his Socialist party, Pasok, and in the equally divided conservative opposition party, New Democracy.

39.   Their numbers were small, mostly old women and men, some carrying flags from his Socialist party and the Radical Party.

40.   This, incidentally, was for years a strategy conspicuously successful in the case of Marxism in general and the European socialist parties in particular.