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LONDON (AP) - Members of Britain's opposition Labour Party gather in Liverpool on Sunday for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism. (ktla.com)

The main opposition coalition, Let's Save Togo, had alleged irregularities even before full results in Togo's parliamentary elections were announced by the electoral commission on Sunday night. (foxnews.com)
The second-largest opposition formation in the elections was the Rainbow coalition, with six seats. (foxnews.com)
These include three of the largest member parties of the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD): Democratic Action (AD), Popular Will (VP), and First Justice (PJ). (venezuelanalysis.com)
On Sunday, Mnangagwa surprised many when he send a congratulatory tweet to Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC- T) party upon his being endorsed as the opposition coalition candidate in the upcoming presidential election. (africanews.com)
A few more political parties are set to join our coalition. (outlookindia.com)
IRI's assistance in emerging democracies is almost always made available to ruling parties, who themselves control the government or are part of a governing coalition, as well as to opposition parties. (iri.org)
Gift Siziba, the deputy spokesman for the Citizens Coalition for Change party, told reporters at a news conference in the capital, Harare, that the party will "not settle for less. (wtnh.com)
Strengthening the supervision of party funding is one of the priorities for the government," Lauri said, noting that January's coalition agreement between Reofrm and Center detailed this, making SDE's bill redundant. (err.ee)
Chamisa, who leads the Citizens Coalition for Change party, called it a choice of "death or ZANU-PF" for some. (kxan.com)
Yet while many voters indicate a yearning for a clear anti-cuts party, the Socialist Party leadership is moving in the direction of a coalition with pro-capitalist parties. (socialistworld.net)
The present leader of the Socialist Party, Emil Roemer, was an alderman in Brabant, as part of a local coalition with the Liberal Party. (socialistworld.net)
But a SP coalition with other 'mainstream' parties, like the Labour Party, the Green Lefts or the Christian Democrats perhaps, is a real possibility after future elections. (socialistworld.net)
We, the Katsina State Chapter of the Coalition of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) have no quarrel with the setting up of your Committee. (saharareporters.com)

Togo's ruling party has won 62 of 91 seats in parliamentary elections, provisional results show, allowing the ruling family to maintain its decades-long grip on power. (foxnews.com)
It's an electoral sham amid massive corruption and proven electoral fraud," Kodjo, a former prime minister whose OBUTS party joined with Let's Save Togo for the elections, told AFP. (foxnews.com)
The most prominent Let's Save Togo candidate was Jean Pierre Fabre, the longtime opposition leader who finished second to Gnassingbe in 2010 presidential elections. (foxnews.com)
YEREVAN -- Armenia's opposition Heritage party has pulled out of local elections because of the recent arrests of its three leading members. (rferl.org)
The party said on August 15 that the arrests last month of Armen Martirosian, David Sanasarian, and Hovsep Khurshudian were baseless and the charges against them were 'fabricated,' adding that the party will not take part in local elections in September-October. (rferl.org)
Opposition parties in Armenia have often avoided participation in local elections, claiming that candidates affiliated with or supported by the ruling Republican Party extensively use administrative resources and vote-buying schemes that preclude fair elections. (rferl.org)
Candlelight Party had hoped to take part in the elections to restore the base of democracy to the country. (thestar.com.my)
PHNOM PENH (AFP): Cambodia's main opposition party on Thursday (May 25) lost a bid to overturn its ban from the upcoming elections, paving the way for long-serving leader Hun Sen to run a one-horse race. (thestar.com.my)
Critics and rights groups accuse him of using the legal system to crush opposition to his rule, particularly in the run-up to elections. (thestar.com.my)
The party gained traction in last year's local elections, claiming 22 per cent of the popular vote, and was planning to challenge the CPP in every constituency in the national polls. (thestar.com.my)
In 2018's national elections, his party won every seat after the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved. (thestar.com.my)
On Saturday, there's a vigil in churches across different states, and on Sunday the few opposition candidates who have been selected for the legislative elections will hold "house-to-house" meetings in their districts. (foxnews.com)
Has Venezuela Really Banned Opposition Parties from Elections? (venezuelanalysis.com)
However, the first cracks in the story appear almost immediately, when the author (AP) elaborated, "The all-powerful assembly passed a decree requiring the parties to reapply for legal status after boycotting mayoral elections in early December. (venezuelanalysis.com)
To participate in the national, regional or municipal electoral processes, political organisations must have participated in the immediately previous elections of the constitutional period at the national, regional or municipal level," the ANC stated, as reported by the opposition-aligned El Nacional . (venezuelanalysis.com)
Clearly, the move is aimed at opposition parties that boycotted Venezuela's recent municipal elections . (venezuelanalysis.com)
On the other hand, the opposition does have a bad habit of running only in elections it thinks it can win, while simply boycotting any it expects to lose. (venezuelanalysis.com)
Earlier this year, the National Electoral Council (CNE) clarified that for nationwide elections, parties need to meet the 0.5 percent threshold across at least 12 states . (venezuelanalysis.com)
At the start of this year, the CNE sparked a similar controversy when it announced all parties that failed to obtain 1 percent of the vote in the last elections would have to undergo the reapplication process . (venezuelanalysis.com)
Mnangagwa said in January Zimbabwe would hold transparent elections by July and he would respect the result if the opposition won - a pledge crucial to unlocking urgently needed financial assistance and repairing relations with Western powers and international financial institutions. (africanews.com)
People's Democratic Party storms to power after winning 32 seats out of 47 in nation's second parliamentary elections. (aljazeera.com)
Bhutan's opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) has scored an upset victory in the second parliamentary elections, and will take over power in the tiny Himalayan nation. (aljazeera.com)
The opposition parties are attending this event a few months ahead of the country is scheduled to hold its "transparent and harmonized elections", as Mnangagwa put it several weeks ago. (aa.com.tr)
The once-dominant party has been in disarray ever since its resounding defeat by conservative New Democracy in double elections in May and June. (yahoo.com)
The opposition alliance, comprising 26 parties, has been formed to collectively challenge the ruling BJP in the forthcoming central elections. (outlookindia.com)
Siziba told reporters at a news conference that the party was demanding fresh elections supervised by neighbouring countries, digging in on its rejection of of last weeks polls that gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party a majority. (wtnh.com)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Tuesday demanded fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries, digging in on its rejection of last week's polls that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa win re-election and his long-ruling ZANU-PF party retain its majority in a vote criticized by international observers. (wtnh.com)
In an interview with The Associated Press, Nelson Chamisa also warned that any evidence of tampering by Mnangagwa's ruling party in upcoming elections could lead to "total disaster" for a beleaguered nation that is in economic ruin and already under United States and European Union sanctions for its human rights record. (kxan.com)
Chamisa, who will challenge Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF party's 43-year hold on power in the Aug. 23 presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, claimed widespread intimidation against his opposition party ahead of the vote. (kxan.com)
Hun Sen responded by going after leaders of the opposition, primarily through sympathetic courts, which eventually dissolved the party after local elections in 2017 when it again fared well. (wvia.org)
Offering former chairman Edgar Savisaar the first place on the Center Party's general list for the local elections in Tallinn this October could be part of a compromise between the party leadership and party members that support him. (err.ee)
The secretary general of the Center Party, Mihhail Korb, said earlier on Wednesday that the party was offering Savisaar the first place on the party's general list for the local elections in Tallinn. (err.ee)
Bloomberg) -- Members of Greece's leftist Syriza party elected Stefanos Kasselakis to head the country's second-largest political party after the resignation of former leader Alexis Tsipras in June following a free fall in support for his party in two general elections earlier this year. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
Voters are casting ballots Thursday in two special elections in England that could add more misery to the beleaguered governing Conservative Party. (wkrn.com)
LONDON (AP) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party decisively won two special elections Friday, snatching seats in Parliament that long were rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives. (wkrn.com)
SEOUL - South Korea's ruling Democratic Party suffered a devastating defeat in Wednesday's mayoral by-elections, widely considered a bellwether for next year's presidential race. (wclk.com)
The ruling party had won all four major elections since 2016, including a landslide in parliamentary polls last April. (wclk.com)
In the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Primary Elections of 1999, he was rigged into being the flag bearer in the gubernatorial elections and subsequently in the election proper. (saharareporters.com)
The date was decided days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar -- who volunteered to act as the interlocutor for Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 general elections - met Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. (telegraphindia.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)

Ambrose Mutinhiri, a veteran of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war, quit the ruling ZANU-PF party and gave up his parliamentary seat last Friday, then met Mugabe on Sunday to brief him about the latest developments, an NPF statement said. (africanews.com)
The divisions that have rocked the opposition since the death of veteran politician and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai might indeed benefit the ruling ZANU - PF party. (africanews.com)
Despite the Independence Day being a national event, the country's ruling Zimbabwe Africa National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) supporters came donning their party regalia. (aa.com.tr)
Henry Mutasa, the president of the Kambizi Party, also said he was in attendance because independence was not only for Zanu-PF. (aa.com.tr)
We are just here to be with other Zimbabweans to show the world that the ruling Zanu-PF party did not fight for independence alone. (aa.com.tr)
During the reign of Mugabe, independence celebrations were exclusive events attended only by members of the ruling Zanu-PF party. (aa.com.tr)
The CCC accused ZANU-PF followers of killing him and attacking other opposition supporters. (kxan.com)

The Socialist Party has, in a limited way, taken the place of the social democratic PvdA (Labour Party) as the party that is widely seen as representing workers' interests. (socialistworld.net)

The ruling party's leader Choo Mi-ae called on the Liberty Korea Party to stop its political offensive, pointing to the fact that Kim Yong-chol represented the North in the inter-Korean military talks in October 2014 under the Park Geun-hye administration. (koreaherald.com)
Chamisa is being challenged for the leadership of the MDC - T party by the vice president of the party Dr. Thokozani Khuphe who was elected to the poition by the party's congress in 2014. (africanews.com)
She insists that she is the legitimate leader of the party since Chamisa was appointed by the deceased party president, while she was elected by the party's congress. (africanews.com)
The Superior Electoral Court on Friday ruled against a request by the opposition PRD party's faction of former president Hipolito Mejia, to void his recent expulsion from the organization. (dominicantoday.com)
It is true that in the UK the situation is simpler - the political party with the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the Official Opposition, headed by the party's leader - at present Labour's Keir Starmer. (connexionfrance.com)
Lee Jun-seok, a former member of the conservative main opposition People Power Party (PPP)'s Supreme Council, speaks during a press conference at the party's regional branch in Daegu, Friday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
A young politician's rise in the conservative main opposition People Power Party's (PPP) leadership race is shaking the political landscape ― not only for the opposition bloc, but also across the political arena ― as it is signaling a generational shift in politics. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Lee Jun-seok, a 36-year-old politician and former member of the PPP's Supreme Council, has risen as the leading prospective candidate to be the main opposition party's next chairperson. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The PPP selected five out of eight hopefuls for the party's chairpersonship through a primary, Friday, two weeks ahead of the party convention. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Lee, a Harvard graduate who majored in computer science, was a young entrepreneur before entering politics in 2011 at the suggestion of Park Geun-hye, then-leader of the Grand National Party, a PPP predecessor, as the youngest Supreme Council member in the party's history. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Political commentator Choi Young-il said Lee's popularity is a reflection of the people's disappointment with the party's previous leadership, as heavyweights of the party did not meet the people's expectations for the conservative main opposition party as an alternative to the liberal ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), which has been losing public support due to policy failures. (koreatimes.co.kr)
In the international press it has been suggested that the party's popularity has rose because of its opposition to Brussels and its austerity measures. (socialistworld.net)
During the campaign period in Seoul, the party's mishandling of the sexual harassment allegations drew the ire not only of the main opposition but from four minor-party women candidates, all at least 15 years younger than the DP candidate Park Young-sun, who is 61. (wclk.com)

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his offices in Harare, Monday, Aug 31, 2023.Chamisa accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of "violating the law" and "tearing apart" independent institutions to cling on to power. (kxan.com)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of violating the law and tearing apart independent institutions to cling to power. (kxan.com)

Togo's main opposition on Monday rejected provisional electoral results showing the ruling party winning two-thirds of parliamentary seats, allowing the president's family to maintain its decades-long grip on power. (foxnews.com)
According to results released Sunday night by the electoral commission, President Faure Gnassingbe's UNIR party won 62 of 91 seats, giving it a two-thirds majority in parliament. (foxnews.com)
If the results stand, the president's party will control an even greater percentage of seats than it does currently. (foxnews.com)
The closest opposition party was Let's Save Togo with 19 seats. (foxnews.com)
The party of Gilchrist Olympio, another veteran opposition leader and son of the country's first post-independence president, won three seats. (foxnews.com)
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has 290 seats, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) 139, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) 61, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 49, İYİ (Good) Party 37, Turkish Workers Party 2, independents seven seats, while Democrat Party (DP), Grand Unity Party (BBP), and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) hold one each. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
After Ozdag's resignation, the IYI Party now holds 36 seats in the 600-seat parliament. (turkishpress.com)
The official website of Bhutan's Election Commission says the PDP won 32 seats in the 47-member national assembly in Saturday's voting, while the ruling Druk Phuensum Tshogpa or Peace and Prosperity Party (DPT) managed only 15 seats. (aljazeera.com)
The winning party needed 24 out of 47 seats up for grabs to form the next government in the Himalayan nation after two other parties were knocked out in a primary voting round in May. (aljazeera.com)
In April, Bhutan voted for 20 elected seats in the National Council, the upper house of parliament whose members have no party affiliation and monitor the government's actions, review legislation and advise the king. (aljazeera.com)
According to PSUV and Opposition sources the PSUV and its allies, the small PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela) and MEP (Peoples' Electoral aMovement) won 98 seats, while the parties in the MUD opposition alliance won 65 seats, the PPT 2 seats and 2 seats went to indigenous independents. (marxist.com)
whereas the opposition won twelve seats, the PSUV only managed to capture three. (marxist.com)
Venezuela's opposition has crushed the ruling socialist government in polls to elect a new parliament on Sunday, winning the majority of seats in the country's National Assembly. (petroleumshow.com)
In a blow to current President Nicolas Maduro, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) took 99 seats to just 46 for the ruling United Social Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the 167-national National Assembly. (petroleumshow.com)
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the imminent general election is not only a contest among the 18 political parties for National Assembly seats, but also between the 18 contenders and the "outlawed" overseas-based opposition. (phnompenhpost.com)
There were high hopes in the Socialist Party in 2006 when it got 25 seats in the Dutch Parliament out of a total of 150 seats. (socialistworld.net)
The Saenuri Party controls 129 seats, but an impeachment bill could be passed as over 30 Saenuri members support it. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Hun Sen posted on his Telegram channel late Sunday that unofficial results compiled by authorities in each province showed the Cambodian People's Party won 120 seats and the royalist FUNCINPEC party won five. (wvia.org)
Strong regional parties should take on the BJP in 2024 on their home turfs and in turn, they would back the Congress in the 200-odd seats where the two national parties are in direct contest, she has said. (telegraphindia.com)

He further emphasized, 'My aim is to unite the largest possible number of parties ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. (outlookindia.com)

Following Islam's resignation, Saadet Party now holds one seat in the parliament. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The IYI Party turned out to a satellite of the CHP," meaning the main opposition Republican People's Party, Umit Ozdag, a lawmaker from Istanbul, told reporters in parliament. (turkishpress.com)
The main opposition Fidesz party will initiate legal procedures against Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány on charges of concealing and falsifying information of public interest, said Fidesz MP János Áder, deputy speaker of parliament, on Saturday. (bbj.hu)
Áder spoke at a party rally of approximately 50,000 people in Budapest's Kossuth tér, outside Hungary's Parliament, and said that the country had been taken hostage by the prime minister, who had caused a political, economic and moral crisis. (bbj.hu)
At a Fidesz rally outside Parliament following Friday's vote, party chairman Viktor Orbán called on supporters to continue protesting against the prime minister every afternoon. (bbj.hu)
MENAFN - Nam News Network) SEOUL, Sept 21 (NNN-YONHAP) - The South Korean parliament today approved a motion seeking the arrest of Lee Jae-myung, chief of the main opposition Democratic Party. (menafn.com)
This means that a sizeable group of voters are moving from the Party for Freedom to the Socialist Party, which is seen by many Dutch people as the only opposition party worthy that name in Parliament. (socialistworld.net)
The result means Kasselakis, a former associate with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will lead the opposition even if he hasn't served in parliament. (bnnbloomberg.ca)

The CP was seen as the only viable challenger to Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in the July 23 vote. (thestar.com.my)
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)

Already in opposition since 2019, Syriza had hoped to regain power. (yahoo.com)
The current opinion polls, which show Syriza in a tight race for second place with the socialist Pasok party, intensified the malaise within Syriza. (yahoo.com)
FILE - Supports of the main opposition Syriza party wave flags and chant slogans during a pre-election rally, in Athens, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (fox59.com)
Tsipras remained in power until 2019, when the current premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis took over and Syriza became the country's main opposition. (bnnbloomberg.ca)

Nelson Chamisa, the president of the country's largest political party, and President Mnangagwa arrived at the venue of the celebrations together to rapturous applause, the giant National Sports stadium, where an estimated number of 60,000 people had gathered to celebrate the country's independence. (aa.com.tr)
EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: Lawyer Thabani Mpofu stood in front of the nine justices and detailed what he called a vast attempt to undermine opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. (wamc.org)

At the time, the media raised suspicions that Kim was behind the Cheonan's sinking, but the then ruling Saenuri party, which is now the Liberty Korea Party, said the Koreas should work on dialogue, Choo said. (koreaherald.com)
The People's Party, the casting-vote wielding opposition, said it will cooperate with non-Park faction members of the ruling Saenuri Party as well as other opposition parties to pass an impeachment bill at the National Assembly. (chinadaily.com.cn)

SEOUL - South Korea's three main opposition parties on Monday launched preparations to impeach President Park Geun-hye after prosecutors identified the scandal-hit president as a criminal accomplice to her longtime confidante and former aides in multiple crimes. (chinadaily.com.cn)

A retired Zimbabwean general and acolyte of ex-president Robert Mugabe has formed a political party to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the polls later this year, the new grouping said on Monday. (africanews.com)
What I can say is that by inviting opposition parties to this day, Mnangagwa is being all-inclusive, but he should be quick to put new faces to his ministerial posts," said Tendai Munyanduri, the NPF president. (aa.com.tr)
Chamisa said Mnangagwa has utilized institutions like the police and the courts to crack down on critical figures, ban opposition rallies and prevent candidates from running. (kxan.com)
People are getting driven to ruling party rallies and threatened to support Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front if they want to stay safe - or even alive. (kxan.com)
Mnangagwa has repeatedly denied allegations of intimidation and violence by authorities or his party and has publicly called on his supporters to act peacefully during the campaign. (kxan.com)

Opposition Party may refer to: Opposition Party (Northern U.S.) Opposition Party (Southern U.S.) Parliamentary opposition Opposition (politics) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Opposition Party. (wikipedia.org)
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea accused the Liberty Korea Party of using Kim's visit as an excuse to spoil the festive Olympic mood and disrupt parliamentary sessions. (koreaherald.com)
But election observers cautioned it was far from certain that the opposition would succeed in ousting the military-backed government due to parliamentary rules written in its favor. (worthynews.com)

This requirement can be found in the Law of Political Parties, Public Meetings and Demonstrations (Chapter II, Article 10). (venezuelanalysis.com)
Even other opposition political parties such as the New Patriotic Front (NPF), attended the celebrations. (aa.com.tr)
A political neophyte and US resident, with no connection to the party before he became a candidate for the May election, he came out of nowhere to win the contest. (yahoo.com)
They openly derided him for his "post-politics" and one prominent party person even compared him with former US President Donald Trump and Italian comedian Bepe Grillo, founder of a populist political party. (yahoo.com)
Although the Umbrella supporters have not clarified their future plans, they are expected to form a new left-wing political party. (yahoo.com)
Your question, answered: Who and what party is the political "Opposition" in France? (connexionfrance.com)
In France's National Assembly, political parties are mostly organised into groups of parties with similar leanings, which must have at least 15 MPs each. (connexionfrance.com)
His words: "the same thing happened to our billboards, few weeks ago, at Abakpa, Enugu East Local Government Area, where about five billboards were destroyed by opposition political parties. (sunnewsonline.com)
Political watchers said they see a high possibility of Lee actually becoming the new chairperson of the party, as calls for new and innovative leadership have grown to a point in which a fresh figure could take over the party leadership. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar revealed on Sunday that additional political parties are poised to align with the opposition INDIA bloc in their forthcoming gathering in Mumbai. (outlookindia.com)
For more than 30 years, IRI has been working with political parties on nearly every continent, delivering consultations, polling presentations and trainings on messaging and communications. (iri.org)
An interesting thought to consider is the role of opposition political parties in a countries' transition to democracy. (iri.org)
Leaders of the political opposition must walk the fine line of holding ruling parties accountable and presenting an alternative for voters without steering their followers over the cliff of political turmoil. (iri.org)
Extremists, instructed by a fugitive convict associated with a domestic political party, are plotting to disrupt the electoral process, using tactics such as urging voters not to participate and even vandalising the ballots," he said in a Telegram post on July 19, apparently referring to Sam Rainsy, former president of the long-defunct Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). (phnompenhpost.com)
NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said on July 19 that Rainsy and his affiliates had resisted the King's plea for his subjects to freely exercise their voting rights and elect a political party of their choice. (phnompenhpost.com)
Justice minister Maris Lauri (Reform) has rejected a bill from the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDE), which would give more powers to the political parties financing watchdog, and aims to make party finances more transparent, saying that her ministry is developing its own bill this year. (err.ee)
The watchdog, the Political Party Funding Supervision Committee (ERJK), has been used as a battleground by political parties in recent months, not least when the Center Party tabled a bill to remove the body altogether, and place its functions under the remit of the National Audit Office (Riigikontroll). (err.ee)
On Thursday, a man wearing the yellow colors of Chamisa's CCC party was beaten and stoned to death on the way to a political rally, police said. (kxan.com)
Tõnis Saarts, political scientist at the University of Tallinn, said on Wednesday that the party making Savisaar its front runner in the capital could be a result of a compromise the party leadership arrived at with Yana Toom, Olga Ivanova, and Oudekki Loone, who earlier demanded that Savisaar be allowed to run on the party list in Tallinn's Lasnamäe borough. (err.ee)
Kasselakis's announcement in August that he'd seek the party leadership took the political world by surprise, especially as three of the other four candidates were former cabinet ministers in the Tsipras administration. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
Syriza's new president also becomes the first openly-gay person to lead a Greek political party and has campaigned with his partner, Tyler McBeth, a 32-year-old American nurse. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
While acknowledging he has little experience within a political party, he says his life experience will help him take the party on a new path. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
He also has steered the social democratic party back toward the political middle-ground after the divisive tenure of Corbyn, a staunch socialist who advocated nationalization of key industries and infrastructure. (ktla.com)
Labour leader Keir Starmer claimed his party was "redrawing the political map. (wkrn.com)
Fourteen political parties led by the Congress have moved Supreme Court against arbitrary use of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in arresting opposition leaders. (outlookindia.com)
The political parties sought for laying down of guidelines for law enforcing agencies and courts on arrest, remand and bail. (outlookindia.com)
#BREAKING Fourteen Political Parties led by @INCIndia approach SC against arbitrary use of ED ( @dir_ed ) & CBI ( @cbic_india ) in arresting opposition leaders. (outlookindia.com)
But the voices of women are unlikely to be heard any more clearly by either of the major parties after the election, said Kwon Soo-hyun, the director of civic group Korea Women's Political Solidarity. (wclk.com)
How do political parties respond to external shocks? (lu.se)
Using an original survey of political parties across Europe conducted in June 2020 and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data on partisan ideological positioning, we argue that the pre-existing ideological stances of Europe's political parties shaped their response to emerging Covid- 19 policy issues, including the tension between economic normalization and containment, legal versus voluntary enforcement and the role of science in policymaking. (lu.se)
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)
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)
The course Parties and Political Behaviours explores the theories, methods and empirical results that relate to political decision-making in different political systems. (lu.se)
Two salient themes that are discussed during the course are gender and right-wing populism insofar as they matter for political parties and political behavior. (lu.se)

The opposition Saadet (Felicity) Party lawmaker Cihangir İslam resigned from the party on late March 4. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
A senior Turkish lawmaker on Thursday resigned from the opposition Good (IYI) Party. (turkishpress.com)
Choi said that people support Lee not because they believe he is a great politician, but because they want to see a change in the conservative main opposition party, although this change could be rather experimental, as Lee has never won in a general election or a by-election to become a lawmaker during his decade in politics. (koreatimes.co.kr)
At the station where Hun Sen cast his ballot, voter Nan Sy, a former lawmaker himself with a smaller royalist party, said the main issue for him was stability. (wvia.org)

Believing the deck is stacked in the ruling parties' favor, opposition parties frequently call for boycotts, protests or other destabilizing measures. (iri.org)

However, for the first time in 16 years, since former president Chavez's first election victory, the opposition gained a long-sought platform to challenge Maduro's rule of the nation. (petroleumshow.com)
BANGKOK ( Worthy News ) - After nearly a decade of military rule, Thailand's opposition secured a stunning election victory Sunday after trouncing parties allied with the army. (worthynews.com)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The ruling party of Cambodia's longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's general election, an outcome that was virtually assured after the suppression and intimidation of the opposition in a vote called a farce of democracy. (wvia.org)
But with an election due next year, polls put Labour as much as 20 points ahead of the governing Conservative Party, and Labour scored a morale-boosting special election victory in Scotland last week. (ktla.com)
Labour's landslide 1997 election victory under Tony Blair - the peak of its popularity - was a quarter-century ago, and the party has suffered four straight election defeats. (ktla.com)

Some lawmakers in the opposition bloc forecast that the court could approve the impeachment before the two judges end their term, expecting the court's approval in consideration of public outrage. (chinadaily.com.cn)

The party is arguing that the electoral commission engaged in a vast, rigging campaign. (wamc.org)
PERALTA: The electoral commission lawyer, Tawanda Kanengoni, said the opposition is just making things up. (wamc.org)

Thirteen opposition members held over the fires have since been released, including five candidates in Thursday's polls. (foxnews.com)
Wednesday's exit polls showed that 15.1% of women aged 18 to 29 voted for candidates outside the two major parties. (wclk.com)
That figure is singularly high compared to other demographic groups, who all gave less than 6% support to independent or minor-party candidates. (wclk.com)

Nitish Kumar is planning to bring all like-minded opposition parties on board and has been successful getting Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav -- who have been hawkish about the Congress -- to sign up. (telegraphindia.com)

Last week, the National Election Committee (NEC) refused to register the Candlelight Party -- the chief challenger to Hun Sen -- for the July polls after it failed to submit certain documents. (thestar.com.my)
Our party was rejected (from the polls), we are so disappointed," Candlelight Party (CP) spokesman Kimsour Phirith told AFP. (thestar.com.my)
Ahead of Sunday's election, the Candlelight Party, the unofficial successor to the CNRP and only other contender capable of mounting a credible challenge, was barred on a technicality from contesting the polls by the National Election Committee. (wvia.org)

The absence of the party that has grassroots support will shrink the space of democracy. (thestar.com.my)
The minor opposition Party for Democracy and Peace leader Cho Bae-sook also urged the Liberty Korea Party to stop opposing solely for the sake of opposition, alluding to the military talks in 2014. (koreaherald.com)
For a democracy to mature, opposition parties must learn to wield their power strategically, yet responsibly. (iri.org)
With the stakes high for CAR's newly-elected legislature to deliver for its citizens, Mr. Dologuele's stewardship of the Union for Central African Renewal party at this important juncture will help shape CAR's advancement down the road to democracy. (iri.org)

Venezuela's pro-government constitutional assembly on Wednesday effectively stripped three of the country's most influential opposition parties of the right to participate in next year's presidential election," reads the lead, as it appears at the New York Times . (venezuelanalysis.com)

Calling Kim "a heinous villain" that "should be beaten to death," Liberty Korea Party floor leader Rep. Kim Sung-tae said Kim should be immediately arrested if he sets foot in the South. (koreaherald.com)
It would be an insult to the Republic of Korea, our armed forces and our people" for Moon to meet and talk with "the main culprit of the Cheonan's sinking," Rep. Yoo Seong-min, co-leader of the party, said during a supreme council meeting on Friday. (koreaherald.com)
Sources close to the former leader say he is bitter over his departure after 37 years in office and has given his support to the New Patriotic Front (NFP) party. (africanews.com)
Umbrella, a faction led by Euclid Tsakalotos, a former Finance Minister during Syriza's government of 2015-19, announced its departure with a blistering statement that accused party leader Stefanos Kasselakis of "Trumpian practices (and) right-leaning populism. (yahoo.com)
The split, which came after weeks of withering criticism of the leader from within the party, became inevitable in recent days, when Kasselakis insisted he wanted to expel three prominent members of the Umbrella faction, all former ministers. (yahoo.com)
Its leader is seen as a shadow prime minister and leads a shadow cabinet that is usually clearly different to the ruling party in its politics. (connexionfrance.com)
Mr. Dologuele is the head of the Union for Central African Renewal party and is the opposition leader in the newly-elected CAR National Assembly. (iri.org)
Unfortunately for Roemer, the present leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister, much as he indicates he likes Mr. Roemer personally, says he does not see it happening! (socialistworld.net)
Light mingle lunch followed by a lecture by Annika Winsth (Nordea chief economist) and Bo Lundgren (former Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs, leader of the opposition party and head of the National Debt Office) about challenges and risks in the Swedish economy today. (lu.se)

Many of the protests were dispersed by security forces firing tear gas, while some 35 people, mostly opposition members, were detained in the run-up to the vote in connection with suspicious fires at two major markets. (foxnews.com)
Opposition members had at first threatened a boycott of the election, but they eventually agreed to participate after negotiations which allowed members access to polling places and granted them state financing for campaigning. (foxnews.com)
The party members along with an opposition activist, Andrias Ghukasian, were arrested on charges of organizing mass disturbances during public protests on July 29 and remanded to pretrial detention earlier this month. (rferl.org)
When it became clear he might not get his way with party organs, Kasselakis said he would put the question to a referendum among party members. (yahoo.com)
In the primary, based on two opinion polls of the general public and party members, Lee reportedly garnered the highest support: 41 percent. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Nitish Kumar, a pivotal figure in consolidating various parties against the BJP, didn't disclose the identities of these potential members. (outlookindia.com)
To rule, the opposition parties must strike deals with multiple camps, including members of a junta-appointed Senate. (worthynews.com)
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Talks continue among Democrats as members of the party remain hopeful the Build Back Better bill will pass, despite opposition from their own party which caused the bill to gridlock in the Senate. (wndu.com)
In the bye-election into the Katsina State House of Assembly for Malumfashi Local Government Area held on 29th November, 2003, the PDP Government was said to have planned the assassination of prominent All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) members in the state. (saharareporters.com)
23% of all Syrian refugees ernment and opposition members, as well as the outlines of a are women, and 51.6% are children, 18% of whom are under nationwide ceasefire to begin as soon as the parties concerned five years of age. (who.int)
No appropriated Federal funds can be used by CDC grantees for grassroots lobbying activity directed at inducing members of the public to contact their elected representatives to urge support of, or opposition to, proposed or pending legislation or appropriations or any regulation, administrative action, or order issued by the executive branch of any Federal, state or local government. (cdc.gov)

A Diyarbakır court accepted indictments on Jan. 31 against opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, charging them with multiple counts of terrorism. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Hon. Augustine Nnamani, on Friday decried the destruction of the PDP-led government's billboards at the entrance of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, welcoming Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to the state. (sunnewsonline.com)

For example, in California a party only needs the support of 0.33 percent of registered voters to qualify to appear on the ballot. (venezuelanalysis.com)

Another opposition figure, Sam Rainsy, has been living in exile in France since 2015 to avoid jail for convictions he says are politically motivated. (thestar.com.my)
In a landmark move, the NEC has recently barred 17 opposition figures, including Rainsy, from the electoral process. (phnompenhpost.com)

Former defence minister Peter Dutton has been elected unanimously to lead Australia's centre-right Liberal Party after its election defeat, potentially foreshadowing a shift to the right in the country's largest conservative party. (dailymaverick.co.za)

Some key opposition politicians have been embroiled in criminal cases they say are politically motivated, while scores of activists have recently defected to Hun Sen's camp. (thestar.com.my)

Savisaar and his supporters have been given a clear signal that they have not been dropped by the party, and with that the party is hoping to eliminate the chance of Savisaar and the two remaining 'sisters', Oudekki Loone and Olga Ivanova, creating a separate election list after all," Saarts told BNS. (err.ee)
They accused Mnangagwa's administration and the ruling party of weaponizing the police and courts to arrest opposition figures, ban and break up opposition party rallies, and intimidate its supporters. (wcia.com)

Preparations were underway Sunday to form a new government without the army's involvement as the liberal Move Forward party and the populist Pheu Thai Party were leading with nearly all votes counted. (worthynews.com)
Those upheavals left both Britain's main parties in turmoil - and both responded by picking populist leaders. (ktla.com)

Venezuela has officially banned opposition parties from running in next year's presidential election - at least, according to the Western media. (venezuelanalysis.com)

The opposition party in Zimbabwe is challenging the results of last month's presidential election in the country's constitutional court. (wamc.org)

Opposition spokesman Siziba also didn't rule out approaching the courts, saying the party "will employ all necessary measures" to ensure there is a fair election. (wtnh.com)

Earlier, nine opposition leaders including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging ' misuse of central agencies ' amidst the war of words over the arrest of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case . (outlookindia.com)

While facing strong opposition to negotiations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sought in its Tuesday announcement to illustrate the high costs of the selected medicines. (medscape.com)

People are feeling tired that the conservative party has been making no changes, and now they are seeing a rising power, represented by Lee. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Center was facing scrutiny over its finances at the time and, while a corruption scandal involving the party once again in January prompted Jüri Ratas (Center) resignation as prime minister, Center remained in office under the new deal with Reform, while Isamaa and the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) found themselves in opposition. (err.ee)
Voters in Tamworth, central England, and Mid-Bedfordshire, located north of London, switched from the Conservative Party to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers. (wkrn.com)
Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson' s reluctance to sanction the Conservative legislator when the allegations emerged helped trigger Johnson's ouster at the hands of his own party last year. (wkrn.com)
Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands blamed the losses on "legacy issues" and said people were "happy with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as prime minister. (wkrn.com)
President Moon Jae-in's party lost both by large margins in the capital Seoul and the country's second biggest city, Busan, to the conservative opposition People Power Party (PPP). (wclk.com)

Chairman of the opposition Reform Party, Hanno Pevkur, said that offering Savisaar to be front runner meant that current party chairman and Prime Minister Jüri Ratas (Center) had surrendered. (err.ee)

Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions with capitalist parties! (socialistworld.net)
The Socialist Party in the Netherlands has recently significantly increased its support, coming first in some polls. (socialistworld.net)
It could well be that many of these voters moved from the Socialist Party to the PVV after 2006. (socialistworld.net)

Choo Mi-ae, chairwoman of the biggest opposition Minjoo Party, told a supreme council meeting that her party will form an internal committee to push the impeachment and review when and how to force the president to leave office. (chinadaily.com.cn)

I resigned from Saadet Party as of March 4, 2020. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Starmer won a party leadership contest in 2020, vowing to restore relations between the party and the Jewish community. (ktla.com)

Olympio, whose father was assassinated in a 1963 coup in which the current president's father took part, agreed to a deal in 2010 to have his faction of the opposition join Gnassingbe's government. (foxnews.com)
Over 30 Saenuri Party lawmakers reportedly expressed a willingness to impeach Park during a Sunday meeting of the non-Park faction. (chinadaily.com.cn)

Official results still give 95 to the PSUV and 62 to the Opposition. (marxist.com)
Another big surprise was the result in Anzoátegui, where the PSUV suffered a humiliating defeat of 1 to 5, in spite of the fact that the party holds the governorship and has a long record of electoral victories in the state. (marxist.com)

Hun Sen referred to the opposition as extremist factions seeking to undermine the democratic process. (phnompenhpost.com)

Kim Yong-chol, a vice chairman of the Central Committee of the North's ruling Workers' Party, is scheduled to lead an eight-member delegation to the South from Sunday through Tuesday to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. (koreaherald.com)
Liberty Korea Party Chairman Hong Joon-pyo accused the Moon administration of "blindly following" the North's maneuvers to incite conflict within the South and drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington. (koreaherald.com)

Lawmakers of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party protest the government`s decision to recieve Kim Yong-chol as part of the North Korean delegation to the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics on Friday. (koreaherald.com)
About 70 lawmakers of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party rallied in front of the presidential office Friday morning, calling on President Moon Jae-in to withdraw the decision to accept Kim's visit. (koreaherald.com)

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