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* 1832 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
Subsequently, on December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal invalidated the Noriega regime's annulment of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón.
At the 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and incumbent Vice President Al Gore were renominated with token opposition.
Four states ' electors voted for Clinton and one ( Kentucky ) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent John Adams as well as casting their votes for President Washington.
Even though ÖVP chairman and Vice Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel had announced that his party would go into opposition in that case, he entered into a coalition with the FPÖ – with himself as chancellor – in early 2000 under considerable national and international protest.
He initially attempted to transfer the authority of Senate Majority Leader to the Vice Presidency, since that office made him President of the Senate, but faced vehement opposition from the Democratic Caucus, including members he'd counted as his supporters.
On April 20, 2005, following a week of massive demonstrations, the Congress of Ecuador ( meeting in a special session in a private building, CIESPAL, with opposition delegates only ), on the grounds that Gutiérrez had abandoned his constitutional duties, voted 60-2 ( 38 members, including the great majority of PRE / PRIAN / PSP deputies, did not vote ) to remove Gutiérrez from office and appointed Vice President Alfredo Palacio to serve as President.
Canaris arranged for appointment of Gisevius as Vice Consul in Switzerland, where Gisevius met with Allen Dulles in 1943, and agreed to serve as a liaison with the German opposition to Hitler, including General Ludwig Beck, Canaris, and Mayor Carl Goerdeler of Leipzig.
Pawlenty then decided on the U. S. Senate, but he abandoned those plans when Vice President Dick Cheney asked him to step aside and allow former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman to challenge Senator Paul Wellstone without Republican primary opposition.
President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party were re-elected by a margin of 0. 22 % of valid votes over a combined opposition ticket of Kuomintang ( KMT ) Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party Chairman James Soong.
In 1729, he became Vice Admiral of Scotland, but lost the position on 5 May 1733, mainly because of his opposition to the Excise Bill of 1733 promoted by Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
He later rejoined UCR, becoming a prominent figure in the opposition, despite being still the Vice President.
After the 2001 general election she was briefly an opposition spokesperson on Constitutional Affairs, before becoming the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party 2000-04.
Andre Marrou was selected as Paul's running mate as the candidate for Vice President without any opposition.
Leading members of the party over the years have been René, James Michel ( formerly the chief of staff of the armed forces, information minister, finance minister and vice president from 1996-2004 ; he is currently the President of Seychelles ), Guy Sinon, Jacques Hodoul ( a former foreign minister who was regarded as the party's chief ideologue ), Joseph Belmont ( the current Vice President of Seychelles ), and Maxime Ferrari ( a former René loyalist who later supported the opposition and wrote an autobiography ).
Andrzej Gwiazda ( born on 14 April 1935 in Pińczów ) is an engineer and prominent opposition leader, who participated in Polish March 1968 Events and December 1970 Events ; one of the founders of Free Trade Unions, Member of the Presiding Committee of the Strike at Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980, Vice President of the Founding Committee of Solidarity, then Vice President of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981 ; in December 1981 interned and next imprisoned with six other Solidarność leaders ( see Martial Law in Poland ).
In 1991 part of this staff met Arias Calderon ( Vice President of Panama ) to make clear their interest in make a political opposition and not a military.
While three members endorsed a federal state ( the minority report ) similar to the Grady Morrison plan that had been rejected by both Jews and Arabs and the UNSCOP found that a canton system “ might easily entail an excessive fragmentation of the governmental processes, and in its ultimate result, would be quite unworkable .” No members of the UNSCOP endorsed a One-state solution as recommended by the Arab Higher Committee and on 29 September Mr Jamal al-Husayni Vice president of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine ( AHCP ) acting for the AHPC announced opposition to the UN partition plan
Nasheed's Vice President Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik became President after the Nasheed's fall and has since aligned himself with Nasheed's opposition.
Vice President Bush was nominated without opposition during the roll call vote, but with rumblings of opposition to the Quayle nomination, it was decided to have it ratified by voice vote, something that the Republicans had never done before.
Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino ( Struggle of the Patriotic Filipino Masses ) was the umbrella political coalition party of the opposition during the 1998 Philippine Presidential Elections that led to the presidency of then Vice President Joseph Estrada.
Shekhawat was elected as the Vice President of India in 2002, when he defeated the opposition candidate, Sushil Kumar Shinde by a margin of 149 votes out of the 750 votes polled.

opposition and President
Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.
The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.
" After Congressional phone lines were flooded by organized anti-gay opposition, President Clinton backed off on his campaign promise to repeal the ban in favor of DADT.
* 1991 – Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
* 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
President Bongo coasted to easy re-elections in December 1998 and November 2005, with large majorities of the vote against a divided opposition.
Facing a divided opposition, President Omar Bongo was re-elected in December 1998, with 66 % of the votes cast.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
President Bongo coasted to an easy re-election in December 1998 with 66 % of the vote against a divided opposition.
There were massive demonstrations and protests by the civil opposition, demanding the resignation of President Saakashvili.
The Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal despite French and British opposition ; he estimated a European answer was most unlikely to happen.
Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni " Arab street ," due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish.
* 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
* 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.
A rainbow coalition of opposition parties routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president Mwai Kibaki, was elected President by a large majority.
In November the President faced yet more protests, as the opposition announced it would march on the capital and demand his resignation.

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