As recently as 2010, the regime held elections so blatantly rigged that the main opposition party refused to participate.

The main issues were legalization of the opposition, partially free elections, and creating the office of president to replace the Communist Party chief.

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.

The main opposition party argued that the vote was invalid, and the General Staff issued a statement that it was watching this situation with concern.

China reacted to Ishihara s proposal with its usual sensitivity it refused to receive the scheduled visit of Ishihara s son, who is Secretary General of Japan s Liberal Democratic Party, the country s main opposition party.

In Hungary, the main opposition party Fidesz organizes demonstrations in front of Parliament for the resignation of a government, even after it won a confidence vote.

Nevertheless, Musharraf s men have skillfully fractured the main Islamic opposition party, Muttahida Majlis e Amal (MMA), with bribes, blackmail, and internal dissension fomented by agent provocateurs.

It is the largest opposition party in Cambodia.

The main opposition Socialist Party s weak electoral prospects are also helping Sarkozy.

The main opposition leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has moved aggressively to lay claim to the legacy of one of India s most respected founders, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

France s largest party, the Communists, dominates the opposition. The Socialist Party is paralyzed, ossified, and powerless.

The list includes both the president of Myanmar and the country's main opposition leader.

Iran s main opposition has also failed to address the critical issue of ethnic minority rights.

He could have added that the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League, was content to let him govern until the country went back to the polls sometime in late 2012 or early 2013.

Guam has two main political parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, which are local chapters of the two main United States political parties.

The party has been in opposition at federal level since the 2013 election.

He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey.

However, one opposition party, the National Restoration Party, criticized the CDDR for staging the meeting and press briefing on foreign soil.

In fact, the new consensus is shared by most of Labour and the main opposition within Likud.

The opposition consisted of a coalition of conservative Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats.

In reaching the agreement to raise the consumption tax, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party insisted that the main squeeze on the budget deficit the amount spent on social security benefits for Japan s retirees begin to be addressed.

The National Party () is a right wing conservative political party in Honduras and the main right wing political party in the country.

Čović was subsequently elected president of this main Croat nationalist party.

The main opposition alliance, led by Raila Odinga, won about 100 seats, compared to roughly 30 for Kibaki.

The nineteenth century Know Nothing Party was built upon opposition to immigrants, particularly the Irish.

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

On 1 February the mission also met with Silanyo, the chairman of the opposition party Kulmiye .

Last December, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (legally banned since 1954) scored equally impressive results, garnering 20 of the popular vote and 88 seats in the Parliament, making it the main opposition bloc to Mubarak s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

The opposition Islamist Justice and Development Party had a modest increase in its tally as did the pro government leftist Party of Progress and Socialism.

While in opposition, the DPJ bashed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for flipping through leader after leader.

Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the principal opposition party.

Increasingly marginalized, the opposition dwindled into an impotent force, mere window dressing to a one party state.

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

However, Joseph Stalin, an elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, managed to suppress all opposition groups within the party and consolidate power in his hands.

The leader of Canada s opposition Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, suggests that US power has passed its mid day.

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

These declarations show the gap between the official discourse and citizen demands, and has swelled opposition against the two main political parties.

But its losses were not significant enough to enable any of the four main opposition parties the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), or the All Nigeria People s Party (ANPP) to take its place.

But the opposition Labour Party was not convincing either, and had little in the way of an intellectual alternative.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in power for 18 years, has crushed the opposition. His ruling party dominates public institutions.

The brigade worked with the opposition, while the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) had poor relations with both sides.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni s Kadima party, opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu s Likud party, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak s Labor party all fall with only secondary variations within a centrist consensus, which also reflects a popular national consensus.

Muslim professional organizations and the Islamic opposition political party hold the view that renunciation of Islam is punishable by death.

The Nepali Congress Party, for example, has chosen to remain in opposition, dubious of the Maoists commitment to democratic politics.

They accuse Michael Sata s Patriotic Front (PF) government of using the Public Order Act to severely curtail opposition party activities.