• The government's brutal tactics of the 1990s and early 2000s, when political activists were routinely murdered and opposition parties nearly put out of business, have returned. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Former members of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party and other activists on Thursday announced the formation of the Cambodian National Love Party. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Former members of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and other activists on Thursday announced the formation of a new political party called the Cambodian Nation Love Party (CNLP) to continue the CNRP's legacy and participate in future elections. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • One of the party's founders, Tin Tan, said at a press conference that they decided to form the party after receiving numerous requests from activists of the former CNRP, fellow countrymen and pro-democracy supporters. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Sinouen also urged the government to restore the Kingdom's democratic space by releasing political and human rights activists and dropping the charges against former CNRP president Kem Sokha. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Though Tsang, a self-professed leftist, is a founder of the pro-Beijing political party , the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, he is acceptable to a broad spectrum of democracy activists as a moderate politician who understands different points of view. (time.com)
  • Many of those arrested are activists and leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties. (voanews.com)
  • Iranian Political Activists, Democratic Movement, Student Movement & Opposition Parties can post their announcements here. (iranpoliticsclub.net)
  • During 2013-2014 she conducted a study of 192 Cambodians including civil servants, political activists, factory workers and farmers, to investigate their perceptions of donations from political parties, a practice which has marked the country's democratic era. (lu.se)
  • During that time, they have transformed the country's political system, grown increasingly authoritarian, and failed to keep the economy prospering. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • In 2013, the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), an alliance of opposition groups, came together in time for general elections and nearly defeated the Cambodian People's Party, whose dominance stretches back to the end of the Khmer Rouge era in 1979. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • At present, there are more than 40 political parties registered with the Ministry of Interior but only the ruling Cambodian People's Party managed to take hold of all seats in the National Assembly during the 2018 national elections. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • I think they will not get support from the people because when the CNRP was absent from the election, we saw 19 parties compete with the Cambodian People's Party, but none of them won a seat at the National Assembly. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Since 1979, the country has been dominated by the Cambodian People's Party and its prime minister Hun Sen - whose 32 years in power make him one of the longest-serving political leaders in the world. (lu.se)
  • New Delhi: (L-R) DMK leader Tiruchi Siva, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Mallikarjun Kharge, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury during the opposition parties' meeting to decide candidate for the upcoming presidential election, at Parliament Annexe, in New Delhi, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (politicalmirror.com)
  • We are happy to announce that we have unanimously chosen Yashwant Sinha as the common candidate of the opposition parties for the presidential election, which will take place on July 18, 2022," Ramesh said. (politicalmirror.com)
  • President Emmerson Mnangagwa took power in 2017 after the military intervened to remove longtime president Robert Mugabe amid factional divisions within the ruling party. (freedomhouse.org)
  • National Restoration Party Elias Chipima (2nl) attending the 2017 Labour Day Celebration at Freedom Statue yesterday 01-05-2017. (lusakatimes.com)
  • He was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to replace Harris and took over as attorney general in early 2017 as Trump became president. (medscape.com)
  • The 2024 general elections present a unique and historic opportunity for the country's political landscape. (iol.co.za)
  • It is concluded that the country's political polarization seems to be becoming a public health problem during the pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first phase of this research programme focused on the sociology and network structures of insurgent liberation movements turned political parties and the broader question of how formerly armed groups that become political parties adapt to electoral politics. (york.ac.uk)
  • Electoral bonds have been pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of efforts to bring transparency in political funding. (indiatimes.com)
  • Ahead of assembly elections in five states, the government on Friday approved issuance of the 19th tranche of electoral bonds which will be open for sale from January 1 to 10. (indiatimes.com)
  • Registered political parties that have secured not less than 1 per cent of the votes polled in the last election of Lok Sabha or legislative assembly are eligible to receive electoral bonds. (indiatimes.com)
  • In turn, these electoral contests are usually dominated by a small number of political parties which select their own candidates and leaders. (gc.ca)
  • Some Cambodian political analysts even believe the opposition would have won the election if not for electoral fraud. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The ruling BJP-led combine has over 48 per cent vote share in the electoral college to pick the new president, and its candidate has a clear advantage over the opposition. (politicalmirror.com)
  • The 2024 election is likely to witness the emergence of new and dynamic political forces that are reshaping the electoral landscape. (iol.co.za)
  • Opposition groups, including a burgeoning Islamist movement , would achieve a number of electoral victories throughout the rest of the century. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • - Project Democracy and Catch 22 Harper Conservatives, two overlapping Anyone-But-Conservative internet campaigns, were unable even to identify the best-positioned opposition candidate in more than 10 per cent of their targeted electoral districts. (rabble.ca)
  • Part of that communication concerned the opposition-the opposition was the principal participant in Parliamentary matters," Prof. Smith, Ryerson University visiting political science professor, told The Hill Times last week. (carp.ca)
  • Parliamentary opposition is now being "upstaged by modern participatory behaviour," Prof. Smith said. (carp.ca)
  • A situation in which the activity of politics is devalued is inimical to parliamentary democracy. (gc.ca)
  • The existence of an opposition, without which politics ceases and administration takes over, is indispensable to the functioning of parliamentary political systems. (gc.ca)
  • With the advent of representative and responsible parliamentary government, the distinction between 'government' and 'opposition' has become more formalized and routinized, but the underlying principles have not changed. (gc.ca)
  • Accordingly, we shall look at some of the countervailing power available to oppositions in legislatures which, through their heritage in the British Commonwealth, look to the 'Westminster model' of parliamentary democracy for inspiration. (gc.ca)
  • There was a time when the subjects thought fit for parliamentary debate were severely limited, when opposition to the government s handling of affairs of state could be considered to smack of treason, and hence to be dangerous. (gc.ca)
  • In 1991, with the restoration of a democratically elected government, Bangladesh adopted a parliamentary democracy based on a Westminster system . (wikipedia.org)
  • It refused to support the NRO, forcing the government to abandon its effort to seek parliamentary approval for the Ordinance. (com.pk)
  • It was the start of an adventure where no political party on each side of the parliamentary aisle trusted you but everyone else lapped up the reports, analyses and opinions. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The liberal Move Forward party and the populist Pheu Thai Party were far out in front, with 99 per cent of votes counted, but it was far from certain that either would form the next government, with parliamentary rules written by the military after its 2014 coup skewed in its favour. (abc.net.au)
  • Parliamentary seats are distributed based on 400 open constituency seats and 100 'party-list' seats - or seats won by parties based on their share of national votes. (abc.net.au)
  • Governments work through small leadership groups of diverse politicians, through huge bureaucracies, and to legal standards. (sluggerotoole.com)
  • We are also aware that politicians and their parties and religious organisations can play a key role in promoting peace and unity in the country. (co.zw)
  • By the late 1990s, anxieties about globalization, a series of government corruption scandals, a flailing economy, and a fractured center-left coalition further fueled the success of these politicians. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • His killing has intensified growing public outrage at the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, with a large crowd of protesters at the scene convinced this was just the latest act in a wave of government intimidation of opposition politicians and civil society ahead of elections next year. (voanews.com)
  • All Ukrainian politicians are united in opposition to Putin and Putin's Russia. (wuot.org)
  • Governments and politicians want the truth bent to suit them and not the public. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Demonstrators are prosecuted for fictitious offences, demonstrations are broken up by the military and opposition politicians are persecuted. (lu.se)
  • Parliament is no longer "the indisputable centre of Canadian political life" because opposition parties have lost their dominance in criticizing the government, argues renowned constitutional scholar David E. Smith in his latest book , Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics . (carp.ca)
  • T]he governing party (the Conservative Party of Canada) has devalued legislative opposition, whose status was long derived by tradition from Parliament and the unwritten constitution, and has devalued it for that very reason-because it was not elected," he writes. (carp.ca)
  • Constitutionally, it's Parliament that elects governments, but the Conservatives have promoted the notion that governing parties receive a mandate from the public by holding a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. (carp.ca)
  • 2008 decision to prorogue Parliament to block a non-confidence vote that would have defeated his government and resulted in a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Québécois coalition government. (carp.ca)
  • One consequence of the transfer of government's legitimacy to the electorate outside Parliament, as opposed to perceiving that it is derived from the chamber, is a determination by government to appear inflexible in Parliament. (carp.ca)
  • Prof. Smith downplayed the suggestion that the governing Tories are culpable for the demise of the opposition and Parliament in his conversation with The Hill Times . (carp.ca)
  • I would never say that if Canada's got a problem it's a Tory problem," he said, although he conceded that the rise of the Reform Party and the emergence of the Conservative Party was "a revolution" in Canadian Parliament. (carp.ca)
  • The following paper is an attempt to come to grips with the challenging nature of the opposition s role in Parliament, specifically in the Canadian context. (gc.ca)
  • Opposition leaders, who gathered at the Parliament annexe for the meeting convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar to decide on a common candidate for the much discussed presidential election, unanimously agreed on Sinha's name. (politicalmirror.com)
  • AS THE 2024 South African general elections loom on the horizon, political analysts and citizens alike are anticipating a potentially groundbreaking outcome - the possibility of a hung Parliament. (iol.co.za)
  • One of the primary reasons driving the prospect of a hung Parliament is the increasing fragmentation of South Africa's political landscape. (iol.co.za)
  • Widespread public dissatisfaction with the performance of incumbent parties is another critical factor contributing to a potentially hung Parliament. (iol.co.za)
  • With the potential for a hung Parliament, the concept of coalition politics comes to the forefront. (iol.co.za)
  • A hung Parliament scenario can be viewed as an opportunity for increased political accountability. (iol.co.za)
  • The potential for a hung Parliament is a testament to the evolving nature of South African democracy and the increasing diversity of political voices. (iol.co.za)
  • It was in this context that the then socially moderate and economically (neo)liberal AKP pulled off a stunning political upset , winning more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Most were fringe, but one party had nearly 10% of seats in Ukraine's Parliament. (wuot.org)
  • Viktoria Siumar is a member of Parliament and part of the same political party as Poroshenko, technically making her the opposition to Zelenskyy's party. (wuot.org)
  • The opposition never talked of his removal through parliament because they know that they do not have the required votes to impeach him. (com.pk)
  • In an age of mass politics, direct citizen democracy has been replaced, with rare exceptions, by representative systems providing for periodic elections. (gc.ca)
  • As Cambodia prepares for national elections in two years, its politics have veered dangerously out of control. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Since the opposition-boycotted 2014 elections, the most violent in its history, Bangladesh has steadily descended into a cycle of polarising politics, pitting the avowedly secular nationalist government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed against the country's religious establishment, key allies of opposition leader Khaleda Zia. (aljazeera.com)
  • the new pledge of loyalty to Chinese sovereignty for the Sept. 4 elections for the legislature, which caused six candidates to be barred and sparked criticism of political censorship. (time.com)
  • Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? (freedomhouse.org)
  • Traditionally, the ANC has dominated the political scene, securing comfortable majorities in previous elections. (iol.co.za)
  • The outcome of this election may not only determine the composition of the next government, but also set a precedent for future elections, potentially heralding a new era of multiparty co-operation and accountability in South African politics. (iol.co.za)
  • Turkey was a one-party state under the control of Atatürk ' s Republican People ' s Party (CHP) until 1950, when the center-right Democrat Party won power in the country ' s first open elections. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Mr. Chipimo said that it was important for political parties who lost the 2016 general elections to accept that there is a government in place and they provide constructive checks and balances for the betterment of the country. (lusakatimes.com)
  • In 1989, when opposition candidates won victories in the elections, Noriega suspended the presidential elections. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • The Cambodian government has also introduced new laws enabling the dissolution of political parties - a move which could result in the main opposition party being dissolved before the national elections in 2018. (lu.se)
  • The CP reports on the current financial status of Canadian political parties based on their recent filings with Elections Canada. (blogspot.com)
  • In terms of collaborative work, she is the co-editor of the new Routledge Handbook of Political Parties , a book on The Effects of Rebel Parties on Governance, Democracy and Stability: From Guns to Governing as well as several journal special issues. (york.ac.uk)
  • The project explores the political transformation of insurgent liberation movements into political parties and how these parties govern to impact on governance, democracy and development in the years and decades after the end of armed conflict. (york.ac.uk)
  • Among the causes are the emergence of regional factions within the opposition in the 1990s, the growing influence of mass and social media in shaping political debate in Canada, and Canadians' own changing attitudes about how democracy works. (carp.ca)
  • Genuine political opposition is a necessary attribute of democracy, tolerance, and trust in the ability of citizens to resolve differences by peaceful means. (gc.ca)
  • The division between government and opposition is as old as political democracy itself. (gc.ca)
  • To be the supporters of democracy we claim we are, we should become the carriers, and explainers, of what governments do. (sluggerotoole.com)
  • But isn't there a material difference between enacting national-security legislation on behalf of a sovereign power that is a democracy, and enacting national-security legislation on behalf of a sovereign power that is a one--party state? (time.com)
  • The main reason for this is that Viktor Orbán spoke about his "illiberal" political system in an exceptionally open and explicit manner, even though the widely-used general meaning of the term refers to a limited democracy, a sort of autocratic setup. (boell.de)
  • The popular public figure was an outspoken critic of the government and the founder of the Grass Roots Democracy Party. (voanews.com)
  • From 1903 until the 1950s, a commercial elite controlled political power although Panama was nominally a constitutional democracy. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • The political leaders need to do serious soul searching whether their political activities are helping or hindering democracy. (com.pk)
  • Another factor that adversely affects the institutions of democracy and politics of restraint is the common practise of viewing defiance as a sign of power. (com.pk)
  • Like Malaysia's initial prime minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia (see Country Study in Multiparty Systems), the elder Lee was a prime defender of authoritarian political values and argued that democracy is incompatible with Asian culture. (democracyweb.org)
  • In the forthcoming Presidential election which is being held on the 75th anniversary of India's independence, we have decided to field a common candidate who can truly serve as custodian of the Constitution and stop the Modi government from doing further damage to Indian democracy and India's social fabric," it said. (netindian.in)
  • Iran Politics Club supports the fight to establish Freedom, Secularism, Federalism, Human Rights and Democracy in Iran. (iranpoliticsclub.net)
  • Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
  • Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)
  • And that what SA democracy needs today is an organized, which means well-funded, political party of opposition, not a commercial bank at odds with itself. (blogspot.com)
  • Pawar said he also spoke to TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as well as Akhilesh Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Tejashwi Yadav (Rashtriya Janata Dal), Farooq Abdullah (National Conference) and Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena) and they all supported Sinha's candidature. (politicalmirror.com)
  • Sinha's name came up after Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah declined the opposition offer to be their joint candidate for the top post. (politicalmirror.com)
  • Banerjee also suggested names of Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi for opposition nominee for Presidential polls but no discussion was held on the names. (netindian.in)
  • It is the first time the army has been ordered on the streets to tackle crime under a democratically-elected government. (voanews.com)
  • While there is no excuse for not upholding the law and respecting our national institutions, there can be no legal justification for the charge of treason leveled against the leader of the main opposition party in Zambia for failing to abide by police directives to give way to a presidential motorcade. (lusakatimes.com)
  • The party was a junior partner with only eight seats to the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and Labour Party, which both had around thirty seats (out of 100). (wikipedia.org)
  • In the general election of 1956 it increased its total, receiving thirteen seats, but was still kept out[citation needed] of government until the general election of 1959, which was held early because of a cabinet crisis. (wikipedia.org)
  • This time it gained nineteen seats, and the party entered government alongside the Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union CHU and the Roman Catholic KVP. (wikipedia.org)
  • With Toxopeus as its Leader, the VVD lost three seats in the 1963 election, but remained in government. (wikipedia.org)
  • When lengthy formation talks between the social democrats and Christian democrats eventually led to a final break between the two parties, the VVD formed cabinet with the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), with a majority of only two seats. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to a Reuters calculation, both were set to win more than triple the number of seats of Palang Pracharat, the political vehicle of the junta, and the army-backed United Thai Nation party. (abc.net.au)
  • Most Labour councillors, while not wanting to lose their seats, get that opposition is a good thing. (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • His party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had called him and a few other leaders to ask whether they had a name for top constitutional post. (politicalmirror.com)
  • Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge said: "Congress will play a constructive role in ensuring that the parties assembled here this afternoon arrive at a consensus candidate in the next few days. (netindian.in)
  • Even though young Cambodians are demanding political alternatives and accessing more information outside of state media, the country's transition toward two-party politics has collapsed. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Cambodians under 35 years old, who have no actual memory of the Khmer Rouge era-and thus were less willing to support Hun Sen simply because he provides a kind of rough stability after decades of civil war-voted overwhelmingly for the opposition. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Cambodians shout slogans outside a shopping mall where prominent political analyst Kem Ley was shot dead in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 10, 2016. (voanews.com)
  • Her interviews showed the existence of strong popular resistance to these donations - even among Cambodians who supported the governing party. (lu.se)
  • We know relatively little about ordinary Cambodians' political preferences. (lu.se)
  • We know relatively little about ordinary Cambodians' political preferences - this is true both of academics and of the Cambodians in power. (lu.se)
  • Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term beginning January 2018. (state.gov)
  • The VVD was founded in 1948 as a continuation of the Freedom Party, which was a continuation of the interbellum Liberal State Party, which in turn was a continuation of Liberal Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • In March 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that Chamisa was not the legitimate opposition leader, replacing him with Khupe, who was then the MDC-T leader. (freedomhouse.org)
  • 2020). Although adopted strategies should focus exclusively on technical criteria, discussions concerning social isolation have been inserted in the Brazilian political arena. (bvsalud.org)
  • Like Malaysia, Singapore's has been ruled by the same party since independence and its government is highly authoritarian. (democracyweb.org)
  • The rule of law operates to serve the interests and authoritarian policies of the government. (democracyweb.org)
  • One explanation could be persistent power structures, built up around authoritarian leaders and clientelistic politics, despite the fact that the countries in Southeast Asia are members of the UN and have committed to upholding the universal declaration on human rights, and despite increased international connections and growing tourism drawing the world's attention to the domestic politics of these countries. (lu.se)
  • This leaves the authoritarian leaders in Southeast Asia free once again to control how political power is exercised. (lu.se)
  • They were joined by the Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by Pieter Oud. (wikipedia.org)
  • The liberals within the Labour Party were primarily members of the pre-war social liberal Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) who had gone on to join the Labour Party in the post-war Doorbraak ("Breakthrough") movement. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, they believed that the Labour Party was becoming too socialist for their liking. (wikipedia.org)
  • Between 1948 and 1952, the VVD took part in the broad cabinets led by the Labour Party Prime Minister Willem Drees. (wikipedia.org)
  • A cabinet was formed by the Christian democratic parties, the VVD and the Labour Party offshoot Democratic Socialists '70. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wiegel did not shrink from conflict with the Labour Party and the trade unions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Highbury East Cllr Osh Gantly tweeted a picture of Labour members canvassing in Highbury East - with none other than Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader and Islington North MP of 35 years. (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • Since the gradual formation of cohesive Whig and Tory party groups in the latter part of the 18th century, the term 'the Opposition' has been applied chiefly to the party or parties whose elected members do not support the ministry of the day and who offer themselves to the voting public, not just as individual candidates, but as an organized and disciplined alternative government. (gc.ca)
  • Recently several artistes, both veteran and amateur too pledged their support to various candidates and even went to express their views on the political stage. (dailymirror.lk)
  • In any case, for the most part, strategic voting from below (independant of the political parties, candidates and campaigns), was unable to deliver. (rabble.ca)
  • Paetongtarn Shinawatra, left, one of the prime minister candidates from Pheu Thai Party, gave birth to her second child two weeks before the election. (abc.net.au)
  • In 1966, frustrated with their hopeless efforts, LDC members departed the VVD altogether and went on now to form an entirely political party, the Democrats 66 (D66). (wikipedia.org)
  • While social democrats were elated by the NDP's record-breaking success in breaking the 100-seat mark and becoming the Official Opposition, we are stuck with Harper's unbridled power for at least the next 3 years. (rabble.ca)
  • Republicans are portraying the Californian as unfit, but Democrats are unfazed, accusing the GOP of playing politics despite the coronavirus pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • Democrats say he's not outside the mainstream of their party, which strongly supports women's access to abortion, and where single-payer government-run health care for all remains a popular policy position, even if Biden has made clear he doesn't support it. (medscape.com)
  • Note to Democrats: the loyal opposition is just that. (blogspot.com)
  • Postelection opposition protests erupted in Harare and the military was deployed to disperse them, leading to several deaths. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Only recently the government too had buckled under protests to offer Rs25,000 more per acre. (etribaltribune.com)
  • The government continued to prosecute and punish officials who committed abuses, but a weak judicial system and corruption were major obstacles to gaining convictions. (state.gov)
  • Instead, the attacks have been dismissed by officials as the handiwork of local militants, painted as allies of the opposition amid plans to outlaw the Jamaat-e-Islami altogether. (aljazeera.com)
  • We also have to bear in mind that President Mnangagwa does not have a lot of time on his hands to spend haggling over ideological issues with party officials who hold a different worldview. (co.zw)
  • The American officials also said there are credible reports of abuses by the Bangladesh military, and have urged the Bangladesh government to ensure that the army observes human rights standards. (voanews.com)
  • Police officials allege that links between criminal gangs and political parties have spurred increased crime in the country. (voanews.com)
  • F)ormer officials from both the Progressive Conservative party and the Canadian Alliance, the parties that created the Conservative party, said the common practice they followed was to disclose convention fees paid by their members as political donations. (blogspot.com)
  • If these systems are perceived as not working well as being 'seriously overloaded,' to quote a distinguished Canadian Opposition Leader, the Hon. Robert Stanfield it may be the rights of political oppositions which are immediately and most visibly at stake, but ultimately the threat is to democratic rights and freedoms generally. (gc.ca)
  • It was, we seriously believe, as safe to be a highwayman as to be a distinguished leader of the opposition. (gc.ca)
  • We regret Modi government made no serious effort to have consensus on a presidential candidate," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who read out a joint statement after the meeting, said. (politicalmirror.com)
  • In recent months the government has made sweeping arrests of opposition members and outspoken members of civil society, repeatedly threatened the media and launched a sustained attack on deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. (voanews.com)
  • The leader of Thailand's opposition Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat said he had been in contact with at least five opposition parties on forming a coalition. (abc.net.au)
  • Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat - a 42-year-old former executive of a ride-share app - described the outcome as 'sensational' and vowed to stay true to his party's values when forming a government. (abc.net.au)
  • An opposition leader present in the meeting said that the Trinamool supremo proposed the name of NCP chief Pawar and everyone agreed. (netindian.in)
  • Opposition leader J B Patnaik described the firing as" unfortunate and shocking. (etribaltribune.com)
  • Cllr Watts regularly clashes with de facto opposition leader Cllr Russell. (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • On targeting Highbury East, the council leader since 2013 said: "Every political party - Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens - will fight for every seat but it's up to the electorate. (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • Economic challenges, corruption allegations, and a perceived lack of progress in addressing social issues have eroded trust in established parties. (iol.co.za)
  • This can lead to more robust checks and balances within the political system, potentially mitigating issues of corruption and unilateral decision-making. (iol.co.za)
  • Inefficiency and corruption characterized his government, and the economic situation worsened. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • Meanwhile, the PML-N and other opposition parties focused only on the alleged corruption by 12 PPP leaders rather than talking about the 8,041 people who got their cases cleared under the NRO. (com.pk)
  • Sir Christopher Foster, the economist and adviser to successive UK governments, told a recent seminar in London that "We've got better advice than we've ever had as input to government: the problem is that the output is often unintelligible - to the cabinet, to MPs and to the people . (sluggerotoole.com)
  • Ordinary people support opposition parties looking for alternatives, but successive governments have failed them. (dailymirror.lk)
  • Zanu-PF, as the ruling party, is in a clear majority and therefore doesn't require outsiders. (co.zw)
  • The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has dominated Zimbabwean politics since independence in 1980, partly by carrying out severe crackdowns on the political opposition, critical media, and other sources of dissent. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Southern African Development Community and European Union observers noted challenges including parties having difficulty accessing voter rolls, progovernment bias by state media, contested postal voting, the denial of the diaspora's right to vote, reports of assisted voting, and intimidation meant to aid ZANU-PF. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The VVD, whose forerunner was the Freedom Party, is a party of the centre-right, which promotes private enterprise and economic liberalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • The joint statement also said that India is passing through difficult times and the BJP government at the Centre has failed totally in fulfilling its promises and commitments. (politicalmirror.com)
  • Astrid Norén Nilsson, at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, is researching politics in Cambodia. (lu.se)
  • In many ways, Becerra was California's early face of opposition to the Trump administration. (medscape.com)
  • Now, with right wing extremist parties advancing in Europe and Trump as president of the USA, this opposition has disappeared, according to Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • President Mnangagwa lived up to his pledge to reduce the size of his Cabinet as part of efforts to reduce Government expenditure. (co.zw)
  • Moreover, President Mnangagwa is not from the opposition with its outlandish agendas influenced from outside. (co.zw)
  • The funeral procession of slain Cambodian government critic Kem Ley, Kandal, west of Phnom Penh, July 24, 2016 (AP photo by Heng Sinith). (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The body of Cambodian political analyst Kem Ley is carried away by his supporters to a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 10, 2016. (voanews.com)
  • Prominent Cambodian political activist and commentator Kem Ley was shot dead in broad daylight while sitting in a coffee shop at a gas station in Phnom Penh Sunday. (voanews.com)
  • It was not until the 18th century that it came to be constitutionally accepted that an opposition could be 'loyal' across the whole spectrum of public policy. (gc.ca)
  • FENG: Restrictions on these worry the opposition, namely that Zelenskyy is clearing out political rivals before the 2024 presidential election. (wuot.org)
  • He formed the Democratic Revolutionary Party and amended the 1972 Constitution to allow for the reorganization of the unicameral legislative body. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka was forced on the political leadership of the country as a consequence of the Indo- Sri Lanka Accord of 1987. (lankaweb.com)
  • Brainstorm for the future system, constitution & laws of the Iranian government post IRI. (iranpoliticsclub.net)
  • These included Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Telangana's K Chandrashekar Rao from the TRS who stayed away from the meeting. (politicalmirror.com)
  • In Brazil, however, discussions concerning isolation have been inserted in the political arena of an already polarized context. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this context, this study sought to investigate the role played by morality and Fake News in the relationship between political orientation and attitude towards social isolation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Gyda is the founder and convener of an active research/policy network t he Politics After War Network (PAW-Network), which is a hub for research and policy on the political transformation of armed groups, the politics of DDR, state-building and governance after armed conflict and civil war. (york.ac.uk)
  • Another founder, Kheuy Sinoeun, said a request was submitted to the Ministry of Interior on Thursday to form the party. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • The counterview is that the Awami League, by criminalising the Jamaat-e-Islami, is working towards the establishment of the one-party state envisioned by the founder of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the late father of Sheikh Hasina. (aljazeera.com)
  • The Canadian Action Party showed a surplus of $19,444 after party founder Paul Hellyer forgave a stunning $829,296 loan to the organization. (blogspot.com)
  • In Aristotle s Athenian polity the essence of self-government was that citizens were, in turn, both the rulers and the ruled. (gc.ca)
  • Government could alternate among different groups of citizens, and the minority could seek to persuade a majority of its point of view by peaceful (i.e., political) means. (gc.ca)
  • In a statement, the party said it aims to maintain CNRP's principles - to form a new political culture, bring the citizens together, facilitate reconciliation and advocate democratic principles. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • This, the first tribute from the government to one of its private citizens, was of course reported in the press. (archives.gov)
  • Incomprehensible as it seems to those who think the ANC is doing a bad job, many, perhaps most, SA citizens have until now always decided the party is doing a good one and elected it repeatedly. (blogspot.com)
  • With gusto, Sheikh Hasina has pursued the prosecution of leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's biggest religious party, for their alleged involvement in massacres of at least 300,000 civilians during the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, won after India intervened militarily. (aljazeera.com)
  • Therefore, we assure the people of India that the unity of opposition parties, which has been forged for the presidential poll in a spirit of equality, common commitments and consensus-building through dialogue, will be further consolidated in the months ahead," the joint statement said. (politicalmirror.com)
  • the other political analysts will not dare analyze the truth. (voanews.com)
  • Traditional leaders ignored the constitutional ban on their participation in partisan politics. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Partisan considerations and the attempts to delegitimise the role of the political adversary are the hallmarks of our politics. (com.pk)
  • However, this makes politics more partisan, personalised and vendetta-driven. (com.pk)
  • Dr Gyda Sindre's research expertise spans the disciplines of Politics, Development Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, with particular interest in political transitions, post-war development and governance, insurgent/liberation movements, political parties and civic activism as well as the legacies and politics of mass atrocities. (york.ac.uk)
  • And, in all parts of the world, these legislatures are confronted with the problem of 'executive dominance' in the face of modern demands for more and more government services. (gc.ca)
  • By the 1950s, alternative ideologies and political coalitions had formed, but a military coup in 1960 against the Democrat Party government and subsequent arrest and execution of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes darkened hopes for a robust political opposition. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • We were told that the fact opposition political leaders attended President Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony on November 24, meant they must be rewarded with positions in his administration. (co.zw)
  • Banerjee said all important political parties sent their representatives and several senior leaders attended the meeting. (netindian.in)
  • The political leaders need to stop their elitist and personalised point scoring and check what the concerns of the ordinary people are. (com.pk)
  • Under Wiegel's leadership, the party oriented towards a new political course, aiming to reform the welfare state and cut taxes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ongoing work focuses on the question of how former armed groups and liberation movements govern after they become elected ruling parties - with particular attention to broader trajectories of post-colonial and contemporary processes of state-building, democratisation (or lack thereof) and peace-making. (york.ac.uk)
  • Outcomes include several journal articles, a special issue Transforming state visions: Ideology and ideas in armed groups turned political parties in Government and Opposition. (york.ac.uk)
  • Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, she is currently writing a book that investigates how former armed groups turned political parties govern and shape the state. (york.ac.uk)
  • As the Hungarian Prime Minister announced in his speech on 26 July, his government is building an "illiberal state" within the European Union. (boell.de)
  • on the level of a political communication, it also includes the promise of creating workplaces while satisfying the views of right-wing voters regarding welfare-chauvinism and the rejection of the idea of state benefits. (boell.de)
  • It is misusing ED, CBI, Election Commission, Governor's office and other institutions as weapons against opposition parties and state governments run by them. (politicalmirror.com)
  • A shocked state government rushed armed reinforcements to assist the local police in the area. (etribaltribune.com)
  • Fair game or one-party state? (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • Dixit, who was also a prime mover in this despicable intervention, records the almost unanimous and intense opposition to the Indian proposals by the Cabinet of Ministers. (lankaweb.com)
  • The anti-crime drive was launched as the government came under intense pressure to halt a rising wave of violence and serious crime including extortion, kidnappings and killings. (voanews.com)
  • Many people in the opposition ranks, especially the PML-N, thought that either he would quit under intense political pressure, or the military top brass would force him to resign, or the Supreme Court would knock him out. (com.pk)
  • The emergence of a set pattern of government and opposition is of comparatively recent origin. (gc.ca)
  • National restoration Party (NAREP) President Elias Chipimo has said that the acceptance of the 2016 general election results is the starting point for dialogue among political parties. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Our nation is currently experiencing serious tension and simmering political turmoil. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Political and social turmoil, aggravated by an ongoing economic crisis, threatened stability in Panama. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • Pledging his support to National People's Party candidate General Mahesh Senanayake, veteran actor Kamal Addaraarachchi said that he tried to support the existing Government which had failed. (dailymirror.lk)
  • These smaller parties, while potentially lacking the broad national appeal of the ANC or other established parties, can garner significant support in their specific niches, potentially chipping away at the traditional power bases. (iol.co.za)
  • A catastrophic 1999 earthquake near Istanbul and the government's poor response only deepened distrust in the Kemalist establishment, paving the way for a national political realignment. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • He was also a political competitor of Zelenskyy's, and Priamyi's reports have been excluded from the new national broadcast and most cable networks. (wuot.org)
  • FENG: And he characterized the lack of any opposition outlets from Ukraine's new national broadcast channel as simply a lack of space. (wuot.org)
  • One would think that such a humbling experience would open the party to new ideas - i.e. democratic voting - given that they are now on the receiving end of first-past-the-post under-representation on a national level. (rabble.ca)
  • The Liberal Party remains the strongest alternative party in Ontario where most national media organizations are headquartered, a significant reality which the. (rabble.ca)
  • The Indian opposition political parties criticized the interference as an effort to divert the growing hostility to the Congress party in the domestic sphere. (lankaweb.com)
  • Ms Dixon tweeted back: "What Jeremy Corbyn and his constituency party want more than anything else is to get rid of something they hate. (islingtongazette.co.uk)
  • He sought to generate greater public participation in politics, but maintained he sought no political ambitions for himself. (voanews.com)
  • Thailand's opposition secured a stunning election outcome on Sunday after trouncing parties allied with the military, setting the stage for a flurry of deal-making over the formation of a coalition government in a bid to end nearly a decade of conservative, army-backed rule. (abc.net.au)
  • Cata said the party receives financial support from the founders. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Political analyst Em Sovannara said on Thursday that the new party may not get public support. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Reading out the joint statement, Ramesh said the parties have appealed to all political parties to support Sinha as president so the country could have a worthy 'rashtrapati' elected unopposed. (politicalmirror.com)
  • The political stage is getting heated by the day as many faces continue to pledge their support for existing parties and new alliances. (dailymirror.lk)
  • Those who could not support or be included within this paradigm (for reasons of politics, religious conviction, education, or ethnicity) suffered decades of political marginalization and cultural disdain. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Neither the NDP nor the Liberal Party is likely to completely eclipse the other in public support. (rabble.ca)
  • To rule, the opposition parties will need to strike deals and muster support from multiple camps, including members of a junta-appointed Senate that has sided with military parties and gets to vote on who becomes prime minister and form the next administration. (abc.net.au)
  • However, the staggering performance by Move Forward, riding a wave of support from young voters, will test the resolve of Thailand's establishment and ruling parties after it came close to a clean sweep of the capital Bangkok on a platform of institutional reform and dismantling monopolies. (abc.net.au)
  • It is now clear the Move Forward Party has received the overwhelming support from the people around the country,' he said on Twitter. (abc.net.au)
  • In a payback to the support sought and given to Barack Obama as a presidential candidate from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). (blogspot.com)
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have held power for two decades. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Guillermo Endara, a man of no political experience, was installed as president and governed until 1994. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • The then loyal opposition was only too eager to encourage claims that the Bush administration had information that was ignored and the attacks could have been stopped. (blogspot.com)