1.   Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.

2.   The USD deputies boycotted the vote, in which Snezhana Botusharova of the UDF and Kadir Dzhalil Kadir of the MRF were elected deputy speakers.

3.   However, the SPD boycotted the vote and the motion thus failed to win the required two-thirds majority of members.

4.   And the Haitian opposition has leapt at the chance to boycott a vote that it always knew it would lose.

5.   A Pakistani newspaper reported Wednesday that the referendum order would make boycotting the vote an offense and bar any court challenges to its legitimacy.

6.   But Milosevic opponents in Kosovo and Montenegro may boycott the vote, Rubin said.

7.   But there were many Palestinian leaders who boycotted the vote, showing that bitter feelings still exist.

8.   His opponent, Alejandro Toledo, wound up boycotting the vote.

9.   The Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday forced the legislation through the more powerful lower house as opposition parties boycotted the vote.