61.   However, unions and leftist parties complain that the legislation would make it too easy for employers to get rid of workers.

62.   However, unions and leftist parties complain that the legislation would jeopardize worker security and make it too easy for employers to get rid of employees.

63.   Human rights groups and leftist parties accuse the government of strong-arming foreigners to placate public opinion and to bolster its sagging popularity.

64.   However, the leftist party does not hold a majority in the local legislature.

65.   In a backlash against the Solidarity-led rightist central government, leftist parties with roots in the communist era were expected to do well.

66.   In Germany, a lawmaker from the leftist Greens party, Manfred Such, called Friday for a parliamentary investigation of possible U.S. espionage in Germany.

67.   In Italy, part of the leftist parties have close ties to the PKK and the volatile government majority might split over Ocalan.

68.   In New Zealand, leftist parties, Greens and indigenous Maori groups mounted a strong campaign against the MAI and any New Zealand participation in the agreement.

69.   In the capital Brasilia, congressmen from leftist parties carried a symbolic coffin on their shoulders to the entrance of the white marble Congress.

70.   In the meantime, the Socialists and other leftist parties are already meeting to plot their revival before legislative elections.