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Opposition MP Akram Chehayeb said " That is where the difference between us and them lies: They asked these people to come and they brought them here, whereas the opposition's supporters come here on their own.
This made political libel cases unfortunately common, with one infamous case even filed by the Prime Minister himself versus Official Opposition for alleging that the Prime Minister, when in Opposition, had bribed MP Chuck Cadman.
Joe Clark's rapid rise from a relatively unknown Alberta MP to the Leader of the Opposition took much of Canada by surprise.
Opposition to Douglas's reforms remained strong – eventually, a Labour MP, Jim Anderton, left to establish the NewLabour Party, eventually forming the basis of the left-wing Alliance.
* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.
The article shocked Italian feminists and provoked criticism from Opposition MP Paola Concia.
* Kenneth Matiba, Former MP, Leader of Official Opposition, youngest Permanent Secretary to serve in Kenya, Chairman Alliance Hotels and Hillcrest Schools
In Westminster parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a Member of Parliament ( MP ) or a legislator who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition.
If the first question is asked by a government backbencher, the Leader of the Opposition is the second MP to ask questions.
If the first question is asked by an opposition MP, this will be followed by a question from a government MP and then by the questions from the Leader of the Opposition.
Opposition to O ' Neill's reforms was so strong that in 1967 George Forrest-the MP for Mid Ulster, who supported the Prime Minister-was pulled off the platform at the Twelfth of July celebrations in Coagh, County Tyrone and kicked unconscious by fellow members of the Orange Order.
Park Hill ( Part One ) was officially opened by Hugh Gaitskell, MP and Leader of the Opposition, on 16 June 1961.
George Forbes, Prime Minister from 1930 until 1935 and United Party Leader, opened the conference ; he served as Leader of the Opposition from May until November, when the Reform MP Adam Hamilton was elected the first leader.
The tenaciousness and aggressiveness that made Nielsen a successful Opposition MP made him a liability as a Cabinet minister as he gave the impression of being secretive and disdainful of criticism by the Opposition and the media.
After two years as a backbench MP, Ron Davies was appointed an Opposition Whip in 1985, where his subject areas included agriculture and the environment.
It is often the Whips who answer the question this time after which the Speaker announces the Tellers, two ( one Government MP, one Opposition MP ) for the Ayes and two for the Noes.
He was chosen to serve as Leader of the Opposition in 1993 very shortly after giving notice that he was considering departing from politics due to his inability to survive at a satisfactory level on the means of an MP.
After being sworn in as the MP for Calgary Centre North on July 16, Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper named Prentice to the Shadow Cabinet as the Official Opposition Critic for Indian and Northern Affairs.
Ralston served as Minister of National Defence until the defeat of King's government in the 1930 federal election but was re-elected and remained the MP for Shelburne-Yarmouth through the 17th Parliament, serving in His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
In 2009, the CPS celebrated its 35th anniversary for which the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron MP, gave a speech highlighting the role the CPS played in the Conservative Party ’ s victory in the 1979 election crediting them with ‘ a great rebirth of intellectual ideas, of intellectual vigour, and of intellectual leadership ’

Opposition and initially
He seems to have enjoyed a majority in the Politburo initially ( he said that Kalinin and Voroshilov betrayed the Right at the last minute ) and unlike the Left Opposition, broad mass support among the peasantry, which made up 80 % of the Russian population.
Although the Labour Opposition initially decried the sale as a ' squalid raffle ', it proved an immediate hit with the public, with £ 1, 000 being awarded to savers in the first prize draw in June 1957.
Although initially seen as a move to kill the bill, the Government and Opposition agreed to permit the Bill to proceed through the parliamentary process, subject to any amendments made by the Committee.
Led by Cliff Slaughter and Dot Gibson, it initially had support in the Workers Revolutionary Party ( Namibia ) and a South African section which renamed itself WIRFI and took 5, 481 votes in the South African general election, 1994, as well as Michel Varga's Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International.
In her first term in Parliament, Coffey served initially as a member of the trade and industry select committee until she was promoted by Tony Blair to become an Opposition whip in 1995 and became an Opposition health spokeswoman in 1996.
Lovestone and Gitlow formed their own group called the " Communist Party ( Opposition )", a section of the pro-Bukharin International Communist Opposition, which was initially larger than the Trotskyists but failed to survive past 1941.
More serious claims were also raised when Opposition Conservative MPs claimed she had given a special immigration permit to a campaign supporter — specifically Alina Balaican, a Romanian who had initially been admitted to the country to work as a stripper.
" The Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, initially backed Slipper, but later publicly stated that it was up to each member to adhere to the rules regarding entitlements.
Stalin and his " centre " faction had initially allied with Bukharin and the Right Opposition in order to defeat Trotsky and the Left.
The CLA ( O ) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA but as a faction of it and the Comintern.
In terms of international contacts, the party was initially associated with the International Communist Opposition and later with the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre ( also known as the " London Bureau ").
It was initially won by the Country Liberal Party in 1974, when they dominated the first Assembly, but emerged as an important seat for the ALP after 1977, when Jon Isaacs and Terry Smith held the seat, both of whom served stints as Opposition Leader.
Left Opposition of PCE ( in Spanish: Oposición de Izquierda del PCE ) was initially founded as an internal tendency within the Communist Party of Spain ( PCE ), but later evolved into an independent formation.

Opposition and served
He probably served as Opposition Leader longer than anyone in the history of modern democratic politics.
Added to this was the fact that Menzies had not served in that war, and that as Attorney-General and Deputy Prime Minister, Menzies had made an official visit to Germany in 1938, and like his Opposition at the time, supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement.
He is the only person in Australian history to have been Prime Minister, Premier of a State, and Leader of the Opposition in both the Federal Parliament and a State Parliament ( although George Reid had served as Premier of a colony before Federation ).
Clark served as a chief assistant to provincial opposition leader and future Premier Peter Lougheed, and served in the office of federal Opposition leader Robert Stanfield, learning the inner workings of government.
With the support of both Opposition parties and Labour rebel MPs on 29 April 2009, a Liberal Democrat motion that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence was passed, allowing Gurkhas who served before 1997 residence in the UK.
Jim Duffy ( born 12 April 1966 ) is an Irish historian, political commentator, and served as a policy advisor to then Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny prior to the 2011 general election.
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, PC, QC, ( born 7 July 1941 ) is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.
As the general election of 1902 approached all sections of the Opposition united their efforts under the Bloc des gauches, and the name of Waldeck-Rousseau served as a battle-cry for one side, and on the other as a target for abuse.
He then served as leader of the Opposition, until his party won in the general elections of 1972.
He was the Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate during Joe Clark's brief tenure as Prime Minister ( 1979 – 1980 ), and served as Deputy Opposition Leader from 1980 to 1984.
In 1979, when the Liberals lost the election to Joe Clark's Tories, MacEachen served as interim Leader of the Opposition when Trudeau announced he would retire from politics.
Bernard Landry, (; born March 9, 1937 ) is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who as the leader of the Parti Québécois ( 2001 – 2005 ) served as the 28th Premier of Quebec ( 2001 – 2003 ), and leader of the Opposition ( 2003 – 2005 ).
He served as Liberal party leader and leader of the Opposition until 1998 when he was succeeded by Jean Charest.
In 1999 New Zealand First returned to Opposition before entering into a government again with the Labour Party in 2005, in which he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Saskatchewan Party served as the province's Official Opposition until the provincial election on November 7, 2007.
In 1940 he became leader of the National Party and served as Leader of the Opposition for nearly ten years, until the National Party won the 1949 elections.
Previously, Ablonczy served as Chief Opposition Critic for Citizenship and Immigration, Health, and Human Resources Development.
After the Tories were defeated in the 1980 election, he served as Opposition House Leader from 1981 until 1983, and engineered the " Bell Ringing Affair " to protest the Liberal government's omnibus energy bill.
Nielsen served as Leader of the Opposition in 1983 between the resignation of Joe Clark and the election of Brian Mulroney as PC leader, and continued to lead the party in the House until Mulroney won a seat in a by-election, at which point Nielsen returned to his previous position as House Leader.
He was an Opposition whip from 1964 and served under Edward Heath as Government Chief Whip ( 1970 – 73 ) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ( 1973 – 74 ), and Margaret Thatcher as Defence Secretary ( 1979 – 81 ), Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council ( 1981 – 82 ).
With the defeat of the Liberals, he became Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate, and served again as Government Leader when the Liberals returned to power in 1963.
He joined the Congress ( O ) during the Congress split and served as the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly from March 1972 to March 1976 and again fron November 1976 to December 1977.

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