About twenty minor opposition parties are registered.

The opposition has already started preparing the ground for change.

Most opposition parties boycotted the first legislative election in 1992.

Legal proceedings have been opened against opposition parties.

In September 2000, opposition parties accused Milošević of electoral fraud.

Zambia s opposition parties have called upon the Commonwealth to suspend the country amid claims of a deteriorating political environment.

(k) To register independent opposition political parties and allow them to participate in the electoral process

Indeed, the opposition parties have already organized a transitional council to take Saleh s place.

After its foundation, the party joined the National Change Current (a coalition of smaller opposition parties).

Opposition candidates and parties were denied registration for the slightest formal complaint.

Soon after the vote, protests of irregularities were lodged by opposition parties.

There are currently nine political parties, with the Democratic Progressive Party acting as the ruling party and the Malawi Congress Party and the United Democratic Front acting as the main opposition parties in the National Assembly.

They should insist that opposition parties are included in a dialogue.

Opposition parties found their feet, and the PDP s power monopoly was finally broken but not obliterated.

Opposing parties use the same weapons, develop comparable tactics, and preach increasingly similar ideals.

Charles de Gaulle has governed France for 10 years. France s largest party, the Communists, dominates the opposition.

The opposition parties gained more than 200 parliamentary seats, compared with just 12 in the 2000 elections.

However, continuing economic problems undermined the popularity of the ID, and opposition parties gained control of Congress in 1999.

The leaders of the three party opposition bloc Azadlyg (Freedom) have declared that they will regard any electoral outcome that gives opposition parties less than 70 of the vote as having been falsified, and that street protests would follow.

The polls, although an improvement over the troubled 1993 election, were considered flawed by opposition parties and observers.

(e) Continuing refusal to permit the registration of opposition political parties, and their consequent inability to participate in the electoral process

Voters were unable to choose between the incumbent and the opposition, because the same centrist parties were in office all the time.

In Cairo, an agreement was reached between the Government and a number of opposition parties that had joined forces in the National Democratic Alliance.

The parliament currently is considering 15 bills along these lines, all of which have the full support of the main opposition parties.

Opposition parties should refrain from shorting their government politically at a time when markets are doing so financially.

The government parties, Fine Gael and Labour, as well as the largest opposition party, Fianna Fáil, are campaigning tirelessly for a yes vote.

Several opposition parties have called on their members to stay away in protest over restrictive election rules that strongly favor Mubarak.

As a result, the prime minister is barely muddling through and only by agreeing with the major opposition parties to dissolve the lower house.

Still, despite the FDP s implosion and the opposition parties disastrous electoral strategy, Merkel needs a coalition partner.

A coalition of opposition parties and some individuals was established in 2009 to oust the regime of the EPRDF in legislative elections of 2010.

On 10 February, in an attempt to revise the law establishing the Independent Electoral Commission, the opposition parties filed a complaint with a court in Abidjan.

And the trickery began long before voting day, with nine opposition parties prevented from even appearing on the ballot.

Nuhu Ribadu, the respected former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has announced his intention to contest the presidency as the candidate of one of the opposition parties.

But, with the fractured opposition rallying behind Fonseka and a moderate Tamil party also coming out in support of him, this election may produce a surprise result.

The overlap between the end of the accession process and heated discussions about the new European Constitution played into the hands of the opposition.

The ruling coalitions can finally afford, at least temporarily, the luxury of populism that opposition parties used as their main weapon in the last few years.

As long as activists, workers, journalists, and members of opposition parties are starved, gagged, and oppressed, they will keep on protesting and demonstrating until they bid you good riddance!

Officials from the Union for Democratic Change, an umbrella group of three opposition parties, gave speeches at the demonstration calling for Guelleh to step down.

This position has been challenged by the opposition parties, which have called upon the President instead to use his discretionary powers under the Constitution to amend article 35.

This position has been challenged by the opposition parties, which have called upon the President instead to use his discretionary powers under the Constitution to amend article 35.

The deepening political crisis, the extreme rigid stance taken by the polarized political parties and the pending general election coming up on January 5, 2014 that the main opposition parties have boycotted, all point to another vicious cycles of bloody confrontations between the current government and its oppositions.

The influence of the media on the people is particularly important in a situation like the one currently unfolding in Egypt where opposing parties have entirely different interests.

This announcement was strongly criticized by opposition parties, which expressed serious doubts about the neutrality of the Institute and its ability to successfully carry out such electoral tasks.

A country wide strike called by opposition parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.

But, rather than focusing on the government s weaknesses energy, Europe, education, and family policy they bet their political fortunes on social justice.