1.   Opposition deputies said that the bill would establish an apartheid regime, as citizenship had implications for obtaining work and property ownership.

2.   Vaudier also said that his position as an opposition deputy had been extremely serious and humiliating and that he had himself been arrested and held for two days.

3.   Although the opposition deputies had doubts about the audit, the majority drove through the vote to accept it and declare the case closed.

4.   Before Parliament agreed to the deployment, Kohl sought to secure a broad consensus and some opposition deputies crossed the floor to vote in favor of the move.

5.   Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent opposition deputy, accused President Ernesto Zedillo of ordering his party to kill the commission.

6.   After Bokros announced his resignation, several opposition parliamentary deputies said now is a good time to increase social spending.

7.   Even opposition deputies were quick to say they saw no wrongdoing.

8.   No president has ever been forced to seek allies among opposition deputies in order to get his annual budgets and other economic initiatives through Congress.

9.   Opposition deputies were stunned that the PRI refused to allow any further inquiry into the questionable payment.

10.   Opposition deputies in Parliament are right to demand that judicial authorities press ahead with their investigations.