1.   As a high school student during the times of the military dictatorships, acquaintances said, Eduardo sympathized with the leftist opposition.

2.   At the same time, however, the PRI was violently cracking down on its own mostly leftist opposition.

3.   A leftist opposition candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano, is set to become mayor of the huge capital city by a wide margin.

4.   A leftist opposition party accused Madrazo of fraud, paralyzing Tabasco with protests, and an independent investigation ordered by Zedillo confirmed their charges.

5.   But Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the battle horse leader of the leftist opposition, is running for president for the third time.

6.   Castaneda came to know Fox while trying to forge an alliance between Fox and the leftist opposition so a single candidate would run against the PRI.

7.   Elections in November in the state of Michoacan, the stronghold of the leftist opposition, passed without conflict even though the PRI managed to win the governorship.

8.   Even leftist opposition parties rule out a return to the days of autarky and expropriation.

9.   He accused Cardenas of betraying his nation by leaving the governing party a decade ago to join the leftist opposition.

10.   He also suspended a special summer session of parliament, a move viewed as an attempt to silence Islamic and leftist opposition leaders.