Opposition
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The attempt by
opposition
parties to impeach South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun on the flimsiest of excuses;Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's inability to pass legislation through a parliament controlled by the
opposition
Kuomintang;Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's stalemated first term and the logjam over the fiscal reforms needed to prevent a predicted Argentine-style meltdown early in her second: each bears testimony to democratic paralysis in Asia.
Indeed, Khamenei might well demand that this guarantee cover Farsi broadcasts, financial and political support to
opposition
groups, and censorship of the Internet.
But the recent clampdown has not deterred the
opposition
or silenced criticism.
In Argentina,
opposition
groups worry that the government will use these crucial weeks to bury bad news.
But the interplay of evolution and religion is more complex than
opposition
and conflict.
The EU has started legal proceedings against Poland, and it is calling on the Polish government to work with
opposition
parties to reform the court.
This may be true, but the status of women is clearly one issue that puts non-Western Muslims into
opposition
to the West.
The recent assassination of former Deputy Prime Minister and
opposition
leader Boris Nemtsov reinforces this assumption.
Trump may also run up against more
opposition
than he expects in other areas.
With little or even no evidence, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, may now jail federal ministers, regional governors,
opposition
leaders, theater directors, environmental activists, or ordinary Russian citizens who express political views on Twitter or Facebook.
In itself, this approach represents a worthy expression of collective conscience in
opposition
to the terrorists.
Moreover, a continued standoff between the government and the
opposition
has weakened political effectiveness, further undermining India’s growth prospects.
Israel’s settlement policies,
opposition
to the ever closer alliance between Israel and the US, and integration of the sensitivities of a growing Muslim population all contribute to explaining the evolution of Europe’s disenchantment with Israel.
The Muslim Brotherhood, and primarily President Mohamed Morsi, is banking on the assumption that the strength of Egypt’s Islamist vote will earn him enough support among “regular Egyptians,” and that the
opposition
will have little impact on the referendum’s outcome.
Egypt’s government needs to secure consistent foreign financing to keep the country afloat, providing leverage for international
opposition
to Morsi’s efforts to impose an agenda that runs contrary to Egyptians’ fundamental rights.
Chen squandered six valuable years as his administration engaged mainly in polemics with its
opposition
parties while he pandered to the extreme wing of the DPP and mobilized his government to “de-Sinicize” Taiwan culture.
Opposition
parties have not been banned, and the courts have not lost their independent authority.
Before the World Cup began, some representatives of FIFA member associations spoke up in
opposition
to the status quo.
In the US, this sentiment has fueled the Tea Party, which coalesces around
opposition
to government expansion (and to elites more generally), even if that expansion is aimed at regulating big banks (presumably because government regulations tend to be shaped by the powerful among the regulated).
Last April, the leader of the UK’s
opposition
Conservative Party, David Cameron, explained why we should establish a real operational fund for NATO expeditionary missions, with every member state required to contribute.
In the face of fierce domestic political
opposition
and an entrenched culture of mismanagement and corruption, the government is bringing about all the reforms asked of it.
All of this has been accomplished in the face of fierce criticism from the
opposition
parties, especially those that governed Greece during the last 30 years and thus are responsible for driving it to ruin.
On January 28, a peaceful but “unauthorized” demonstration by
opposition
parties was brutally repressed by the police and three presidential candidates were arrested for the day.
At a time when dam building has largely petered out in the West – and run into growing grassroots
opposition
in other democracies like Japan and India – China will remain the nucleus of the world’s mega-dam projects.
The US deploys overwhelming firepower, either directly or by arming
opposition
groups, shatters local governmental structures, and then pulls out, leaving the country in shambles.
Its current government, under the Law and Justice (PiS) party, is solidly populist; but there is a broad
opposition
arrayed against it.
The political calendar is very favorable to the Polish opposition, which will likely perform well in the local elections next month.
A lot of the money and power in Polish politics resides at the local level, and
opposition
parties already control 15 of Poland’s 16 states (voivodeships) and all major cities.
According to a recent study by Krytyka Polityczna, the biggest problem for the main
opposition
party, Civic Platform (PO), is that it is disliked even by its own supporters, who are animated almost solely by fear of the PiS.
The Krytyka Polityczna study demonstrates that voters take their views on the courts, refugees, and
opposition
politicians from top party leaders, rather than from their own experiences.
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