31.   But Abhisit said the government had no plans to ask an opposition party to join the coalition or to call new elections.

32.   But such agreement will remain a fantasy unless Irish Catholic and British Protestant parties at least join the same forum.

33.   But they took revenge Tuesday, persuading a Djindjic-allied party to join them and the ultranationalist Radicals to vote Djindjic out of office.

34.   But the four opposition parties joined forces to decry the move, accusing Boudria and the government of an affront to democracy.

35.   But on Sunday, Nationalist spokesman Wang Chih-kang told reporters his party would not join the alliance.

36.   He needed the votes of the small Democratic Left party to win the leadership but it was unclear whether that party would join the coalition.

37.   His party joined with Greens and ex-communist lawmakers to oust long-standing conservative mayor Eberhard Diepgen following a sleaze scandal at a city-controlled bank.

38.   In a June letter to Sinn Fein, Mowlam said the party could join talks within eight weeks of a renewed Irish Republican Army cease-fire.

39.   In the big picture, pro-British Protestant leaders have refused to allow the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party to join negotiations on the future governing of Northern Ireland.

40.   It was not immediately clear whether the party would join the new coalition formed by Lux.