1.   Both Jos Mara Aznar, the PP secretary-general, and Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the party president, denied any involvement in the affair.

2.   Almeyda would meanwhile act as party president and Arrate as secretary-general.

3.   The convention also chose Don Johnston, likewise an opponent of the Accord, for the administrative position of party president.

4.   It described them as aligned with Singh or with acting party president and former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.

5.   The plenum demonstrated the dominance of the present Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao, who was elected as party president.

6.   HNS party president Savka Dabcevic-Kucar, said that the party would oppose the legislation for as long as the aggression against Croatia lasts.

7.   As party president, he wields enormous influence, even if he resigns as president of the Bosnian Serb republic.

8.   After meeting for several hours, leaders of the party, its governors and its legislators announced that they would not postpone the elections for a new party president.

9.   But when the crunch came, Tiwari and Singh chose only to name Tiwari the new party president, without formally splitting the party.

10.   Delegations from around the country were denied the floor to demand that voting for the next party president be opened to the rank and file for the first time.