Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.

The political failure doesn't only involve the opposition but also the NDP.

(g) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(h) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

It is a platform for political and religious opposition groups in the Arab countries.

Cuba s government argues that America s financial and political support for the opposition impedes that.

In 1986, the government released political prisoners a precondition for talks with the opposition.

However, the existence of real political opposition creates a different atmosphere, which spreads beyond elections.

While Republican opposition remains strong, the law was a major domestic political victory for Obama.

First, Obama has taken, perhaps, a heavier beating from his political opposition than most presidents.

(k) To ensure the free exercise of political opposition and to prevent the intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

(a) About the continued use of the criminal justice system to silence political opposition and human rights defenders, including through arbitrary detention, lack of due process and closed political trials of leading opposition figures and human rights defenders

Since 1996, following an effective political and military crackdown, the conflict of KDPI against the Iranian government shifted to the political opposition abroad.

In this context, it is important to appreciate the difference between the political opposition and the local opposition groups waging the fight against the regime on the ground.

(a) The persistence of a governmental policy based on the repression of all political opposition activities

He was denied meetings with senior government leaders, representatives of ethnic minorities and political opposition groups.

Early on, he successfully exploited the Gülenist supported political trials in order to demonize the opposition.

Freedom of assembly, speech and the press was non existent and political opposition was strictly prohibited.

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

If constituents are registering to vote in peaceful political opposition, then that is democracy at work.

His political supporters initially brushed aside the mushrooming rumors of his self enrichment as opposition KMT propaganda.

The tendency to use police powers in dealing with political opposition is also a cause for concern.

Moreover, by saying that aid would be frozen until Aristide and the political opposition reached an agreement, the Bush administration provided Haiti's un elected opposition with an open ended veto.

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

But greater political liberalization is unlikely in the short or medium term. Cuba s government argues that America s financial and political support for the opposition impedes that.

Popular Front for Change and Liberation Coalition of Syrian political parties and is currently the leader of the political opposition in the People's Council of Syria.

(k) The release of political prisoners and the measures taken to allow the return of exiled opposition members

Political opposition groups do not attract public support, which makes it easy for the government to suppress them.

In India, matters were aggravated by the investment slowdown that began as political opposition to unbridled development emerged.

Arbitrary arrests and torture by his secret police, SAVAK, were used to crush all forms of political opposition.

The opposition, meanwhile, will try to expand on its victory, which, though partial, was significant in its political symbolism.

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

Giscard faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right wing opposition line.

Crown Prince Abdullah offered not a peep of opposition, leaving the reform agenda that he initiated in a political netherworld.

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

Political parties and others who mobilized opposition to the EDC feared a remilitarized Germany and a threat to France s sovereignty.

Critics say the reforms could be used to intimidate political rivals and opposition parties in upcoming local and regional elections.

The Government denied its citizens their human rights, and new legal measures monopolized information and obstructed political opposition and democratization.

(ii) The restriction of political freedom, in spite of the replacement, in March 2000, of the Political Associations Act of 1998 by the Associations and Political Parties Act and the increased activity by some opposition parties

Beyond the opposition, numerous non political public initiatives have sprung up in the last several years to protest specific government policies leading inevitably to confrontation with the existing political order.

Indeed, political modernization faces massive opposition from the Chinese Communist Party, which has no interest in surrendering its monopoly of power.

The bad news is that doing so faces strong political opposition for there are people who profit from the status quo.

This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the opposition at international gatherings.

He would be forced to join Russia s pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country s toxic political culture.

To this end, he stripped the political system of competition, emasculated state institutions, marginalized the opposition, and basically eliminated public participation.