111.  Last week, for instance, members of the governing party blocked roads and seized municipal offices in several Mexico City suburbs controlled by the opposition.

112.  Leaders of trade unions aligned with the governing party have called the arrangement racist and have threatened to strike or demonstrate against it.

113.  Lopez Obrador accused Interior Minister Francisco Labastida Ochoa, a member of the governing party, of rigging the election.

114.  Later, the court suspended a law the governing party had intended to use to curb defections by its members in Parliament.

115.  Leaders of the governing party have also been allowed to rent, with an option to buy below market value, some of the best of the reverting properties.

116.  Many old-line Mexican journalists who specialize in obsequious reporting on the governing party were incensed.

117.  Mate Granic, the moderate foreign minister, wants to be president, but the governing party is having trouble agreeing to his candidacy.

118.  London newspapers quoted anonymous actuaries as saying that the governing party can expect to lose three legislators by death during the next six months.

119.  Members of the governing party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy, dismissed the charges as ridiculous and irresponsible.

120.  Most important, the governing party wanted to arrest an alarming slide in support that had begun to menace its hold on power.