Once again, the Government party faces a fractured opposition, whose divisions and bitterness run deeper than ever.

Hopes that this nation's fractured opposition would be able to unite in time for next month's legislative elections dimmed today as merger talks collapsed again.

Military choices aside, the Administration has not determined how to transform the fractured Iraqi opposition into a legitimate alternative to the current Government.

None of this will happen, however, unless the fractured political opposition can provide a real alternative.

The fractured democratic opposition outside the parliament also condemned the proposed changes to the constitution.

It pits a moderate, politically fractured opposition against a Government parliamentary majority.

He just barely held onto his seat winning over a fractured opposition.

The voting on Sunday was the first under a new electoral system, and it made clear the disadvantages of a fractured opposition.

Nonetheless, he is a Republican in an essentially Democratic state who won by a single percentage point in 1992 against a fractured opposition.

It is the largest party in Venezuela's fractured opposition, earning 11% of the vote in the 2008 gubernatorial elections.