1.   Numerous opposition legislators denounced the decision and stated that they would appeal against it.

2.   An opposition party legislator spoke out even more sharply, warning that the South African invasion had to be stopped before it was too late.

3.   And some opposition legislators admit that they will be repeatedly outnumbered unless they find allies across the aisle.

4.   Around midnight on Monday, the police arrested and jailed Sikhala and two other opposition legislators on charges of inciting violence.

5.   Backers of the bill, such as opposition Democratic Progressive Party legislator Fu Shiung Shen, said the tax was needed to bring greater fairness to the tax system.

6.   A few hours earlier, a videotape broadcast on national television had shown his intelligence chief and closest adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing an opposition legislator.

7.   A nonpartisan group of opposition legislators in the Upper House has submitted its own legislation to address the change.

8.   But can those Minshuto and Shinshinto members really do their duty as opposition legislators by such attitudes?

9.   But his speech was also marred at moments by protests and an altercation on the floor of the Congress among opposition legislators.