1.   It made government supporters more optimistic about the economy and opposition supporters more pessimistic.

2.   Many opposition supporters had their goods confiscated.

3.   The killings are part of a campaign of intimidation against opposition supporters.

4.   In the following days there were clashes in Douala, the business capital, between security forces and opposition supporters demanding a national conference.

5.   There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day.

6.   They alleged widescale vote rigging and claimed that the names of opposition supporters had been excluded from electoral lists.

7.   And in Zimbabwe, where more than a dozen opposition party supporters were arrested over the weekend, there was a decided sense of gloom.

8.   And while campaigning for the election in November in Marondera West, an opposition supporter was killed.

9.   Another priority, he said, was reconciling the polarized nation by reassuring white farmers and black opposition supporters of their place in the country.