That has led to growing efforts to find a negotiated way out of the conflict, all centering on simultaneous elections.
For the simultaneous local elections, 97,979 of the voters had the choice to choose from 170 candidates at 168 of the polling stations.
The first simultaneous election is expected to occur in 2015.
At the same time, the idea rapidly gained force that the only solution was simultaneous elections for both legislature and president.
His opponents, and many centrist voices, have argued that the only resolution of the feud would be to hold simultaneous elections.
All talk of compromise centered on simultaneous elections to Parliament and presidency.
They were the largest simultaneous transnational elections ever held anywhere in the world, since nearly 380 million citizens were eligible to vote.
A question on simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate fails.
In the simultaneous legislative elections of 2006, the party won 1 out of 166 Deputies and no senators.
Analysts said the simultaneous elections for the legislature seemed on course to bring a reduced but still comfortable majority for Ma.