Opposition
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Have the electoral council “elect” a “constituent assembly” of patriots, while gutting the
opposition
by dividing its leadership and creating a fake
opposition
group.
The same goes for the regime’s appeal to negotiations: the “dialogue” between the government and the
opposition
serves only to buy time, divide the opposition, and demoralize the public.
By emphasizing the relations between states and governments over contacts with the
opposition
or civil societies (when they exist in an identifiable form), traditional diplomacy has created for itself a handicap that is difficult to overcome.
Of course, not all Western foreign ministries are the same; some do understand the need to nurture relationships with people outside the government – if not in
opposition
to it.
Conversely, if populist
opposition
makes structural reforms impossible, this encourages conservative resistance to expansionary macroeconomics.
For example, his
opposition
to governments’ authority to prohibit or regulate human behavior extended to licensing requirements for doctors and car drivers, as well as to anti-drug laws, which he believed operated as a subsidy to organized crime.
And we should expect to see further
opposition
from state bureaucracies, which lack any vision for a transition to an inclusive and sustainable economic model.
But, despite its
opposition
to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its lack of enthusiasm for the Kim dynasty, the Chinese government has thus far refrained from applying pressure by threatening to sever the North’s lifeline.
Last December, the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe, won back control of the government for the LDP after more than three years in opposition, securing the post of Prime Minister for the second time.
But the nominees presented by the LDP government of Prime Minister Taro Aso (who is now Abe’s finance minister) were repeatedly rejected by the Diet’s upper house, which was controlled by the
opposition
Democratic Party of Japan.
Despite partisan bickering, the
opposition
will not resist the appointment of someone with both the vision and the administrative skills to act boldly.
Fourth, governments are not always willing to put global considerations (in this case,
opposition
to nuclear proliferation) ahead of what they see as their immediate strategic interests.
With the Social Democrats (SPD), her previous grand-coalition partners, opting for
opposition
after slumping to their worst postwar result, Merkel was forced to seek an uneasy three-party coalition with the Euroskeptic and liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Europhile and more interventionist Greens.
It also seems improbable that the SPD – whose popularity also plummeted during a Merkel-led coalition over the past four years – will reconsider its decision to go into
opposition.
A country-wide strike called by
opposition
parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.
Libyans’
opposition
to Qaddafi was relatively well organized, was recognized by the international community, and had explicitly called for outside intervention.
These objections reflect a false
opposition
between the primacy of the individual and the paramountcy of society.
Despite fierce
opposition
from religious parties, there have been minor victories, like a couple of madrassahs agreeing to include secular subjects like math, English, and computer studies in their curricula.
It is important to signal that
opposition
to the use of any weapon of mass destruction is both deep and broad.
In the meantime,
opposition
to the US, expressed as suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism, will very likely increase.
Egypt’s Economic SirenNEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus on the economic implications of the current turmoil, whether they are in government or in
opposition.
As a result, the main
opposition
Labour Party now sees a realistic chance of bringing down May’s government and triggering a general election by uniting with either hardline Brexiteers or pro-European Conservative rebels to kill whatever Brexit plan May ultimately puts to Parliament.
Labour
opposition
makes every Brexit option almost certain to be blocked.
This is now totally implausible, because all of Britain’s
opposition
parties, plus the clear majority of Conservative MPs whose primary loyalty is to business interests, would block it.
This, too, would be voted down by all the
opposition
parties, along with dozens of centrist Conservatives.
May’s latest plan for a more cooperative “soft Brexit” now also faces insuperable
opposition
from Johnson and Davis, plus several dozen followers.
But another new aspect of this phenomenon are
opposition
forces that are willing to attempt to negate such machinations by the party in power.
Those in power, as in Iran, accuse Western governments of supporting the opposition, and those in
opposition
accuse the West of supporting the government, as has happened to France in the case of Gabon.
Now, Macron is facing strong
opposition
from both the far left and the far right over his plan to rejuvenate the French economy.
Beethoven’s only opera, written in 1805 (the year of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz) and rewritten in 1814 (when Napoleon abdicated), is one of the supreme cultural expressions of fundamental human values – freedom and
opposition
to tyranny – that resonate in every society.
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