1.  A leader of the rightwing National Alliance party, Maurizio Gasparre, demanded that parliament review the law that allows some leniency for convicts.

2.  After extreme rightwing parties made major gains in elections over the past four years, many papers called on their readers to back the traditional parties.

3.  Belgians vote in general elections Sunday under the pall of a corruption scandal that has shaken the governing Socialists and given added impetus to extreme rightwing parties.

4.  The fast-food chain also has met with resistance from a rightwing political party in Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital.

5.  Xenophobic populist Joerg Haider and his rightwing party pulled level with traditional leftist and conservative parties who have tried for the past decade to ignore his rise.

6.  Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi said the coalition of rightwing parties he heads would instead present its own motion to parliament in a vote Wednesday.

7.  He was backed by most rightwing parties in the election, including extremists from the Romanian-speaking majority.

8.  In France the mainstream parties, including the ruling rightwing parties, fared poorly in the Euro-vote.

9.  A rightwing party led by former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt dominated legislative elections here, electoral officials said Monday.

10.  An IFP official said the party was expecting to pick up more votes in rural areas, especially from whites disillusioned with both the NP and the rightwing parties.