1.   A dozen splinter parties add to the confusion.

2.   Chevenment, head of a populist, Socialist splinter party, is one of the fiercest opponents of Maastricht but close to white, working class opinion on immigration.

3.   Regional assembly elections allow many splinter parties to win seats under a proportional representation system, unlike the two-stage voting system that chooses the national Parliament.

4.   The failure of Hindu nationalists to form a government in India has opened the way for a fractious coalition of splinter parties to make the next try.

5.   The party that was the handiwork of their hopes will die the slow death of court appeals, ballot-eligibility rulings and splinter parties.

6.   The Socialists, too, face uncertainty from two Trotskyite splinter parties.

7.   This year Aguayo ran for Congress as a human rights candidate from a splinter opposition party, and lost.

8.   To reach them, the faction has combined splinter parties established by Nemtsov and Kiriyenko with a third faction set up by a liberal parliament member, Irina Khakamada.

9.   A new government led by a tiny splinter party was sworn in late Saturday.

10.   Even more seriously, some critics allege that Golkar and an allied splinter party embezzled millions of dollars for their campaign coffers.