Opposition
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And, to some extent, their expectation was met; some
opposition
members of Japan’s Diet tweeted that Abe should cancel the promised aid.
But, while Russian airpower has bolstered the government enough to keep it from collapsing, it has not been enough to make significant progress against the
opposition.
The
opposition
posed by this newly empowered political constituency could be decisive.
With a strong civil society, a free media, robust political opposition, and an independent judiciary, South Africa is well positioned for a turnaround.
Serbia welcomes delay in the hope that this will stimulate violence by frustrated Kosovars, thereby increasing Europe’s
opposition
to independence and bolstering Serbia’s dedication to maintaining the status quo, or, as a last resort, to partitioning Kosovo.
Political complications linked to a possible meeting with the Venezuelan opposition, which Bachelet had chosen not to attend (preferring to send her foreign minister), likely also played a part.
But power generates opposition, and Germany’s alarmed neighbors began to form defensive alliances.
But among those opposed to more stringent conditions are not just the ruling parties in Poland and Hungary, but also those countries’
opposition
parties.
In both Poland and Hungary, the ruling parties have brought the
opposition
into line through nationalist blackmail.
But Hungarian and Polish
opposition
leaders warn that suspending EU funds could backfire and bolster public support for anti-EU populists, who will be more than happy to play the victim.
This is particularly true in Poland: although the PiS is still at the top of the polls, a coalition of non-populist
opposition
parties could well overtake it.
A troubling proportion of the
opposition
forces are Islamic extremists, and there is no guarantee that weapons deliveries will stay out of their hands.
If the rationale for arming the
opposition
is not so much to win the war as to weaken the government’s resistance to negotiation, it is arguable that the elements of a “hurting stalemate” are already in place, with more weapons likely to produce nothing but more fighting and more casualties.
It is encouraging that the US, following talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, seems prepared to accept a role for senior Assad regime members in any settlement, and that constructive proposals are starting to emerge from at least some
opposition
quarters.
After a year of retreating, the two largest
opposition
parties have begun to occupy the Sejm (Poland’s parliament) to protest an illegal vote on the state budget.
Instead, lack of
opposition
to Tudjman points to a broad consensus, in which a wink toward Western values disguises fundamental self-satisfaction with things as they are, or were.
Croatia's
opposition
was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary
opposition
kept its collective mouths shut.
In recent years, however, as the political battle shifted to the deteriorating economy, the public accepted more direct anti-Tudjman critiques, allowing parliamentary
opposition
to follow.
Because Tudjman created a highly-centralized political system with vast prerogatives vested in the president, the
opposition'
s best bet was to stick together in hope of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
Unfortunately, this course was abandoned in the summer of 1998 when two
opposition
parties – the Social Democrats (ex-Communists, SDP) and the right-of-center Social Liberals (HSLS) – developed a special relationship that was formalized as a coalition this summer.
In response, other
opposition
parties, the traditional Croat Peasant Party (HSS), the center-left Liberal Party (LS), the populist Croat National Party (HNS), and the regionalist Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), formed their own coalition (the Four).
Formally, the SDP-HSLS and the Four function as a broad
opposition
alliance (the Six).
In fact, they are bitter rivals and will divide
opposition
vote at the January 3 elections for the lower house of the Parliament (Sabor).
So it is risky to claim that the
opposition
will soon rout HDZ.
More likely, there will be ground for various coalition manoeuvres, including between parts of the
opposition
and HDZ.
As for the opposition, various presidential ambitions have been manifested, perhaps most especially those of Drazen Budisa (HSLS), a former dissident and political prisoner, and his Social Democratic partner Ivica Racan, the last head of Croatia's Communists.
With entire sessions lost to
opposition
disruptions, and with frequent adjournments depriving legislators of time for deliberation, the MPs elected in May 2009 passed fewer bills and spent fewer hours in debate than any of their predecessors.
Because a parliamentary system usually results in predictable outcomes, with the ruling majority typically getting its way, India’s
opposition
MPs (and any government MPs who disagree with the cabinet’s position on a specific issue) prefer disruption to debate.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel errant members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the
opposition
to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their
opposition
to Western “imperialism” and Israel, saluted Mousavi’s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, “the [anti-Zionist] resistance cannot afford a pro-American velvet revolution.”
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