Because Putin cannot stomach opposition, he stifles the growth of parties.

This was the first mass sit in organised by all opposition parties and activist and community groups.

At the moment, the opposition reflects a large number of fractured and superficially united political parties.

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

Both governing and opposition parties were encouraged to take initiatives on behalf of the Pygmies, women, people with disabilities and street children.

In response, the Communists blamed the violence on the opposition political parties, which it called fascists, and on Romania and Romanian irredentists in Moldova.

A campaign of civil resistance followed, led by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad coalition of anti Milošević parties.

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.

Outstanding legislation to be considered by Parliament will include laws on the referendum and amnesty, the status of the political opposition, the financing of political parties, the draft Constitution and the electoral law.

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.

On 15 May 2005, Ethiopia held a third multiparty election, which was highly disputed, with some opposition groups claiming fraud.

Delivery of the munitions was suspended, just as the Greek government was coming under fire from opposition parties, and Amnesty International was calling for an arms embargo.

What is the job of the opposition? It is to constructively oppose.

Mass street protests have started not led by opposition political parties but by workers and middle class families facing job losses and declining wages.

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

Concerning the domestic political process, Burundi's main opposition parties urged the Council to remain vigilant regarding the implementation, by the Government, of the constitutional provisions on power sharing.

Any opposition is better than none.

Opposable thumbs

Opposition, 19.5.

They have joined political parties and contributed their dynamism to them.

Christian Democrats, and even conservative parties, adopted its tenets.

Extreme right wing parties had an effect on mainstream political parties and their policies.

Parties and Populists

The funding of political parties.

They have signed a governability pact guaranteeing that, whichever party is elected and whosoever may become President after the elections, they will work with the opposition and acknowledge its rights.

Forging Syria s Opposition

The status of the political opposition

Indeed, the breadth of the opposition to Morsi reflects a major global tendency toward the empowerment of the educated and connected middle classes, whose members tend to be suspicious of political parties and demand more direct political participation.

Merkel s Panglossian campaign was much more in tune with the sentiment of the German electorate than the opposing parties tristesse about working class distress, which was rightly seen as a ploy for raising taxes.

The opposition, grouped in the Pro National Conference Organization (PRONACO), a new umbrella coalition of political parties and human rights groups, has said it would convene an alternative national conference in June.

In 1999, the FRELIMO party got a majority of 133 seats and RENAMO UE (a coalition between RENAMO and a number of other opposition parties) got 117 seats.

Even now, Aristide says that he will share power with the opposition, but the opposition says no.

The Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party ( ), is a political party in Iraq.

Women in political parties

Circulated in accordance with a decision taken by the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) at its 1st meeting, on 29 September 2005.

Mata Utu

III. VIEWS OF THE TAJIK OPPOSITION

You have the right to draw up a dispute.

I waive the right to dispute.

For liberals, the scores are very low.

Bag of tricks? Active opposition?

A considerable difference exists in the gender proportion of ordinary party members and party leaders.

In conservative political parties there were fewer women than in liberal parties, and there were more women among young party members than among all members of political parties on average.

The Mission is engaged in promoting inter party dialogue as well as reconciliation and tolerance among the political parties.

In that respect, the National Forum for Democracy and Unity FNDU (a coalition of 17 opposition parties and groups) announced its refusal to take part in the elections, slamming the lack of any agreement over it and of integrity.