1.   Opinion polls waver, but for the first time the authoritarian PRI is facing a viable challenge in a transparent election process.

2.   Since taking office, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo has pushed and prodded -- often over howls of protest from his own party -- for what Mexicans call transparent elections.

3.   He should negotiate a power share with Mr. Kabila and a transition to free and transparent elections supervised by the international community, a student, Elie, suggested.

4.   And the French foreign ministry reaffirmed the need to respect the Lome accord and hold transparent elections.

5.   They also urged politicians to introduce a transparent election system.

6.   Tumi said he, too, saw the prospects for organising transparent elections in one, short week as slim.