1.   Support for the Liberals and Radical Liberals, the junior coalition partners, and for the opposition Social Democratic Party increased slightly.

2.   A tax increase of any kind is also strongly opposed by the junior coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party.

3.   But backing from his own party, the Social Democrats, and its junior coalition partner, the Greens, would not suffice.

4.   He is a member of the junior coalition partner, Polish Peasants Party,

5.   Officials from the FDP, the junior coalition partners, are pressing their coalition partners to forge ahead with decreasing the solidarity surcharge through a separate law.

6.   The first to blow the whistle were the Free Democrats, the junior coalition partner, and the opposition Greens.

7.   The decision, approved by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, angered the Greens, his junior coalition partners.

8.   The junior coalition partner in the government is the Freedom Union Party headed by Balcerowicz.

9.   The two junior coalition parties failed Friday to persuade Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to scrap his planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine.

10.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin filled two long-vacant Cabinet positions Tuesday and set off a government crisis when his junior coalition partner threatened to vote against the appointments.