[The president] has acted irresponsibly by concentrating on beating back political demonstrations, while leaving dangerously weak areas in key sectors like the airport.

He believed in peace negotiations to solve the ethnic problem.

What is at stake is not the provincial council elections, but democracy.

All of the areas of the game that looked weak for us before were strong. Our goaltender was great. The power play was good. The penalty killing was sharp. It was a reversal of fortune for us.

Other areas are going to compete fiercely for that project. But I think they would be doing so for political reasons and, or parochial reasons.

This is a president who is weak and is heading toward lame-duck status.