1.   Even when an opposition candidate seemed to have won, it could be taken from him.

2.   Last week, gunmen kidnapped opposition candidate Claudy Myrthil.

3.   No opposition candidate won a seat.

4.   Probably only an opposition candidate who was himself a nationalist should have led the final resistance.

5.   The opposition candidate, Mr Dharam Vir, was charged yesterday with the murder of a Congress worker.

6.   Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima, who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki.

7.   He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage, and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates.

8.   Speaking to the rally, Leopold Gnininvi, secretary-general of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples, called for a single opposition candidate in the presidential elections.