31.  He has also regularly used his radio and TV shows to promote candidates from his leftist Patriotic Pole coalition.

32.  He pointed out that the leftist coalition showed the similar disregard for the law as its communist predecessors.

33.  His leftist coalition has transformed Venezuelan politics, virtually eliminating the traditional parties that ruled Venezuela during four decades of democracy.

34.  His party immediately offered to support a leftist coalition but did not rule out forming a government with the help of other secular parties.

35.  His five-year term as president ends in the fall and the leftist coalition has been pressing for setting the election date.

36.  In Uruguay, the once powerful Tupamaros are now one of the groups within the Broad Front leftist coalition.

37.  It has allowed the leftist coalition government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to make political capital out of strong growth and the resulting lower unemployment.

38.  It is forming a coalition government with the center-right Freedom Union to replace the leftist coalition that has been in power for the last four years.

39.  Jospin has headed the leftist coalition government for the past five years.

40.  Jospin has his hands full, having to form a diverse leftist coalition that can keep his promises.