11.  At the end of the day, the seven leading opposition parties banded together to challenge the way in which the votes were being verified.

12.  Avendano was the leading opposition candidate for governor in elections in August, and lost to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate, Eduardo Robledo.

13.  Bernard Makokove won the seat in the rural Chikomba District, beating his opponent from the leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change.

14.  A crowd of government supporters whip and beat up leading opposition figures and journalists.

15.  A leading Serbian opposition politician, Vuk Draskovic, believes that the moment is not yet ripe for ousting President Slobodan Milosevic.

16.  A shadowy security aparatus controlled by the conservatives has been accused of assassinating four leading opposition figures.

17.  But a meeting of the leading opposition figures on Tuesday demanded a faster timetable, and students demonstrators insisted that Habibie step down immediately.

18.  Fox is now the leading opposition candidate in the most wide-open presidential race in Mexican history.

19.  Guanajuato state is controlled by the right-of-center National Action Party, a leading opposition party.

20.  In another interview, the former wife of Vicente Fox, the leading opposition candidate, announced that she hoped for a reconciliation.