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Investors like to fantasize of economic reforms carried out by a post-Rousseff government headed by current Vice President Michel Temer and supported by Temer’s PMDB and parts of the
opposition
Brazilian Social Democracy Party of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Contrary to what one might think, he does not have a real strategic vision of the world – a shortcoming reflected in his quick capitulation in the face of
opposition
to his proposals.
Such domestic
opposition
weakens the prospect that Obama’s proposals will ever become law.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, US Congressman Barney Frank was surprised to discover that the greatest
opposition
to American plans came from international regulators .
The regime faced deep opposition, but also had considerable internal support.
Their supporters do not want to be oppressed, but they do want stability and national sovereignty – desires that their leaders fulfill partly by limiting
opposition.
The message of the Khashoggi murder is no less clear: Dissidents and
opposition
figures should know what awaits them if they continue to criticize the new regime.
For his part, MBS will now have to fight off mounting
opposition
within the royal family.
That leftist demand, however, is mediated by the Front’s identity politics, particularly its vehement
opposition
to immigration.
This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s power monopoly.
The meeting’s focus was its participants’
opposition
to the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which, as of January 1, now includes aviation.
Of course, the US is far from united in its
opposition
to multilateralism, and the country has so much to gain from openness and cooperation that it may embrace its previous role again within a few years.
Until now, Merkel had to deal with a weak or non-existent
opposition.
Opinion polls in Taiwan reflect public dismay over the Chinese legislation, and this negative sentiment will raise the pressure on President Chen, who recently antagonized some of his more ardent pro-independence supporters by reaching out to the pro-unification
opposition
People First Party.
But
opposition
to the EU was compounded by more fundamental issues of nationalism and identity, including citizens’ distaste for the large numbers of non-English-speaking immigrants from other member countries.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government floundered, the
opposition
vainly sought to gain the upper hand.
Throughout the Indian parliament’s recent winter session, the
opposition
(I am a leader of its largest party, the BJP) demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to inquire into a seemingly endless series of public scandals.
The government, however, would not concede on this point, and the
opposition
refused to relent.
The
opposition
demand for a JPC to examine corruption required real leadership from the government.
The tone, tenor, and content of the language with which the government addresses the opposition, and vice versa, has become ritualized, patronizingly rejectionist, emptied of the spirit of parliamentary democracy.
In such an atmosphere of contempt for opposition, corruption grows and festers.
Without
opposition
support, Lebanon’s government can do little more than manage the most basic day-to-day state functions, but the country is unlikely to relapse into civil war.
She proposed an amnesty law that would have not only pardoned
opposition
leaders, including Abhisit Vejjajiva, her predecessor as prime minister (who faces murder charges), but allowed her brother to return to the country.
The opposition, sensing that its moment had arrived, launched a wave of street protests.
But the
opposition
has rejected this and says that it will boycott the vote.
So, in essence, what is happening in Thailand is an attempted nullification of democracy by the
opposition
and the country’s entrenched elite.
By standing aside as Thailand’s
opposition
and traditional elite seek to undermine the country’s democracy in the name of a permanent right to rule, Asia’s democracies risk driving some elements of the Thaksin camp into the arms of China, which would happily accept the role of patron to so potent a political force.
Thailand’s
opposition
politicians, many of whom were educated at top Western universities, may also be open to quiet advice that they are pushing things too far, not only putting Thailand’s stability at risk, but also jeopardizing regional security.
But by the means listed above the regime has become adept at suppressing
opposition.
Almost nothing, neither in support nor in opposition, has been uttered by the King and these other brothers, collectively known as the “Sudairis.”
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