11.  Hashimoto is heavily favored to keep his job because the fractured opposition appears to have failed to convince many voters that it represents change.

12.  His party consistently tops opinion polls, way ahead of any of the fractured opposition groups.

13.  Milosevic has used his control of media and ability to outmaneuver the fractured opposition to dominate Serbia despite a mountain of social and economic troubles.

14.  Outgoing President Lech Walesa on Tuesday urged the fractured rightist opposition to combine forces and programs as a strategy of winning back power from ex-Communists.

15.  Some in the fractured opposition lambasted other Lukashenko opponents for not voting, saying they had lost a chance to make their voices heard.

16.  That galvanized a fractured opposition to respond with a week of protests and promises of more action.

17.  The fractured opposition united after courts controlled by Milosevic annulled results of local elections won by the opposition.

18.  The fractured opposition presents little challenge to the LDP, which rules in a coalition with two smaller parties.

19.  The fractured opposition united, and have responded with daily protests.

20.  The proposed deal is an apparent attempt to find a nonpartisan formula which would rally otherwise fractured opposition parties behind one goal.