Opposition
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While voters wisely prefer that he and his cabinet, rather than the conservative opposition, implement a program that an overwhelming majority of Greeks detest, the reality of the austerity agenda will test public patience.
Even in Germany, where referenda are not envisaged by the constitution, there are calls to hold one over Turkey's entry; one
opposition
party has already announced that it will make this a central issue in next year's election campaign for the European Parliament.
Afghanistan’s Unavoidable PartitionNEW DELHI – The United States, still mired in a protracted war in Afghanistan that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, will formally open peace talks with the Taliban, its main battlefield opponent, in the coming days (apparently despite last-minute
opposition
from Afghan President Hamid Karzai).
Some non-Pashtun power brokers continue to support Karzai, but many others are now leading the
opposition
National Front.
We Russians have no Victor Yushchenko, who from the start was the undisputed leader of the right-wing
opposition.
With an approval rating that hovers around 70%, no one can accuse Putin of being unpopular – or, for that matter, of a willingness to surrender to the
opposition
or to people in the street.
The nationality issue first came to a head over the status of Alassane Ouattara, the Muslim
opposition
leader and talented technocrat whom Bedie barred from running in the 1995 presidential election on account of his “foreign” ancestry.
In Italy and also in Spain, judges (in both cases, investigating judges) seem to influence political debate more than the interplay of government and
opposition.
The three leading candidates – Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party, Moon Jae-in of the main
opposition
Democratic United Party, and the independent Ahn Cheol-soo – are united in vowing chaebol reform.
But, though the Alliance certainly lost, the main
opposition
Swedish Social Democratic Party and its allies on the left did not win.
Political and military rulers have managed to rally Islamic clerics behind
opposition
to religious reform, silencing anyone who dared to defy them.
In the United States, many liberals console themselves with the belief that the obvious dangers of being governed by an ignorant, narcissistic, authoritarian loudmouth backed by billionaires, ex-generals, peddlers of malicious fake news, and neophytes with extreme views will help to galvanize a strong political
opposition.
The human-rights situation could undoubtedly be improved – in particular, the treatment of the political
opposition
leader Birtukan Mideksa – but Isaias Afwerki’s regime in neighboring Eritrea is worse by orders of magnitude.
More than 50 international Olympic athletes have already publicly voiced their
opposition
to the law.
And, because it was often organized in
opposition
to socialism, the conservative narrative, too, has lost much of its luster – though conservatism has been able to adapt by repositioning itself as a credible force for managing tough economic times.
It also reassures the French business community, which was shocked by Dominique de Villepin’s flamboyant
opposition
to the United States when he was Chirac’s foreign minister.
Such an agreement would be difficult for critics to decry, and could help to overcome conservative
opposition
in the United States.
China’s new leadership is further removed from Maoist-era reflexive
opposition
to nuclear negotiations;Russian leaders’ confidence in their economic and military resurgence is waning; and both countries are increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress in nuclear talks with North Korea and Iran.
Uniting SyriaBERLIN – Syrian
opposition
activists regularly express disappointment with the level of international support that they receive.
They have intensified sanctions against the government, and have provided different kinds of support to
opposition
groups.
As a result, Syrian
opposition
groups believe that they have been left to confront Assad’s brutal regime alone.
In fact, the international community is waiting for Syria’s disorganized
opposition
to transform itself into a coherent, effective force as much as the
opposition
is waiting for the international community.
Yet the Syrian
opposition
has so far failed to present itself as a unified actor.
This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the
opposition
at international gatherings.
The Syrian
opposition
needs to establish an umbrella organization accepted by all, including the de facto civilian and military leaders who have emerged locally over the last year and a half.
Influential
opposition
figures – such as former parliamentarian and political prisoner Riad Seif and the SNC’s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun – have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization.
Syria’s
opposition
leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community’s support.
They simply need to create a common body that all relevant groups on the ground can accept, as the Libyan
opposition
did when it set up the National Transitional Council.
The
opposition
must begin to lay the groundwork for a new order based on unity and cooperation.
Palestinians were so locked in their
opposition
to Zionism that they were unable to appreciate the Jews’ existential needs, just as they failed to appreciate the effects of indiscriminate acts of violence against Israeli civilians.
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