1.   -- Only three weeks to go before the Mexican elections -- and a likely victory for governing party candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon.

2.   After consolidating his hold on the Tabasco government, Madrazo had re-emerged in recent weeks as a possible governing party candidate for the national presidency.

3.   But there was a chorus of concern from opposition parties when early results seemed to favor the governing party candidate.

4.   Despite the longstanding problems at the root of the insurrection, the governing party candidate, Eduardo Robledo, was given a good chance of winning.

5.   Education Department bureaucrats and union leaders tried to strongarm his teachers last year to campaign for the governing party candidate for state governor, Rangel said.

6.   Further problems surfaced when two governing party candidates for Parliament were discovered to have dual citizenship and were accused of lying about when they renounced their second passports.

7.   Preliminary results indicate that the governing party candidate, Levy Mwanawasa, is likely to win the election.

8.   There has been little campaigning, because the opposition parties have little money and cannot compete with the resources available to governing party candidates.

9.   Three polls show Francisco Labastida Ochoa, the governing party candidate, leading by a slender margin.

10.   Prospects rise for governing party candidate.