After the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) lost government in 1922, Lang was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs.

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.

In 2005, the issue of voting along party lines was brought up when two Barisan National Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamed Aziz, supported a motion by Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) to refer International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary Sidek Hassan to the Committee of Privileges.

As one of the few senior Labor MPs to survive defeat at the 1931 election, Forde became Deputy Opposition Leader in 1932.

In the end, the NDP succeeded in increasing their parliamentary representation to 29 MPs, though they had significantly fewer seats than the Bloc Québécois ( 51 ) or the Opposition Liberals ( 103 ).

The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition usually walk side by side, leading the two lines of MPs.

The Opposition, led by Korman, claimed that two MPs had defected from Natapei coalition and were now supporting Korman.

Edward Natapei remains Prime Minister, with the support of 34 MPs ( against 18 for the Opposition ), as of June 2010.

Opposition parties won a majority of parliamentary seats in the December, 2001 election, but subsequent by-elections and liberal use of government patronage to secure the support of opposition MPs gave the ruling MMD a slim majority in Parliament.

The combined weight of 52 Reform MPs and two PC MPs would have allowed a unified caucus to replace the 53-member separatist Bloc Québécois caucus as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Various Opposition proposals to disband the city guard and debar the Lord Provost were put forward, and these were the subject of much debate-the Scottish MPs and the government strongly opposed these proposals for constitutional reasons and nothing was ever done.

Various Opposition proposals to disband the city guard and debar the Lord Provost were put forward, and these were the subject of much debate-the Scottish MPs and the government strongly opposed these proposals for constitutional reasons and nothing was ever done.

Opposition MPs decry his comments as " nonsense " and claim he is covering up for the government.

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.

Bhojpuri Academy chairperson Ravikant Dubey, in separate letters addressed to Lok Sabha ( LS ) Speaker Meira Kumar, leader of Opposition in LS Sushma Swaraj, AICC general secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi, BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi and several other MPs, sought their support for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

The Official Opposition maintains a shadow cabinet, with the Leader of the Official Opposition at its head, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) and Senators who often have the same portfolios as actual ministers.

On 26 April in a surprise move seven UNC MPs announced their support of Deputy Political Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the new Opposition Leader.

The party with the second largest number of MPs is called the Official Opposition.

Opposition MPs claimed that the use of the biometric data in this way would directly breach promises given during the Commons debate that there would be adequate safeguards preventing the use of ID card data for " fishing expeditions ".

Opposition MPs argued that this figure was excessive, and noted that Volpe's meal expenses were more than three times higher than his predecessor as Immigration Minister, Judy Sgro, during the same period a year earlier.

Volpe and four other MPs who contested the Liberal leadership were named to the frontbench of the Official Opposition in parliament.

Opposition MPs complained that several recommendations for access-to-information reform were left out of the bill, and were instead sent to committee for further review.

Several Central Committee members, who were members of the Workers Opposition, offered their resignation to Lenin but their resignations were not accepted, and they were instead asked to submit to party discipline.

The 10th Party Congress also introduced a ban on factionalism within the Communist Party ; however, what Lenin considered to be ' platforms ', such as the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition, were allowed.

At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.

Opposition parties continued to complain about electoral manipulation by the government, and many Egyptians felt their votes were monitored by poll workers, and could face retribution.

Opposition to the PDG continued, however, and in September 1990, two coup d ' état attempts were uncovered and aborted.

Opposition to the PDG continued, however, and in September 1990, two coup attempts were uncovered and aborted.

Opposition to pollution, use of nuclear power, NATO military action, and certain aspects of industrialised society were principal campaign issues.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

The notes Erwin made for his planned meeting with Holt ( which he evidently provided to Reid ) indicate that he and others were worried that Holt was too susceptible to traps set for him by the ALP over issues like the VIP jets scandal, and that he had repeatedly let himself become the target of Opposition " harassment " instead of letting his ministers take the heat on controversial issues.

Opposition parties and civil liberties disappeared ; opponents of the regime were murdered ; and the press suffered strict censorship.

By the Opposition rank and file the gravest accusations were raised against Andrassy.

The ruling blocs continually denied Stalin ’ s opponents the right to organise as an opposition faction within the Party — thus, the re-instatement of democratic centralism and free speech within the Communist Party were key arguments of Trotsky ’ s Left Opposition, and the later Joint Opposition.

Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991 which put an end to formal military rule.

According to Bob Hawke, the historically large $ 9. 6 billion budget deficit left by the Coalition ‘ became a stick with which we were justifiably able to beat the Liberal National Party Opposition for many years ’.

Political tensions increased, notably on Black Monday when following an attempted assassination of the Prime Minister, the premises of the Times of Malta were burned to the ground and the house of the Leader of Opposition was attacked.

When the United Opposition tried to organize independent demonstrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1927, the demonstrators were dispersed by force and Zinoviev and Trotsky were expelled from the Communist Party on November 12.

Walpole's anti-war views were considered by the Opposition to have contributed to his poor prosecution of the war effort.

The Leader of the Opposition, Billy Snedden, was enthusiastic about the appointment and also agreed to reappoint Kerr in five years, were he Prime Minister at the time.

Whitlam argued that because of the vacancies being filled as they were, the Senate was " corrupted " and " tainted ", with the Opposition enjoying a majority they did not win at the ballot box.