1.   The other major party to boycott the poll was the Movement for Democracy in Algeria of former President Ahmed Ben Bella.

2.   Both the UMP and Sope himself had boycotted the poll.

3.   The polls were boycotted by six opposition groups, including the leading opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces.

4.   He was re-elected last April but more militant and impatient ethnic Albanians boycotted the polls.

5.   His boycotting the poll is designed to dovetail with his broad campaign theme of reforming the campaign system to reduce the influence of big money.

6.   Nor, they also note, did the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, boycott the poll.

7.   Opposition politicians threaten to boycott Cambodian polls.

8.   Ordinary people were blunt about their reason for boycotting the polls.

9.   Opposition parties working together boycotted those polls and mounted a campaign to keep people from voting.

10.   About half a dozen political workers and candidates have been killed so far in west Nepal by insurgents boycotting the poll.