fights between legislators, arrests of journalists and politicians and an increasingly hostile war of words between the opposing sides. Top 'No' proponents said this week approval of the constitution would provoke a military coup, statements which "Yes" campaigners in the government said amounted to illegal incitement, with which it vowed to deal harshly. An opinion poll published last week put the "No" camp 10 percentage points ahead of the "Yes" camp. Elected in December 2002, Kibaki's government -- which promised to deliver a new constitution within 100 days of coming to power -- is leading the "Yes" campaign with the symbol of a banana.
