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 parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.

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

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

Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.

There are currently four parties in Opposition ; the Labour Party, the Green Party, New Zealand First and the Mana Party.

As Privy Counsellors are bound by their oath to keep matters discussed at Council meetings secret, the appointment of the leaders of Opposition parties as Privy Counsellors allows the Government to share confidential information with them " on Privy Council terms ".

Three political groups contested the elections — the SPPF, the DP, and the United Opposition ( UO ) -- a coalition of three smaller political parties, including Parti Seselwa.

After the February 26, 1990 elections, the Sandinistas lost and peacefully passed power to the National Opposition Union ( UNO ), an alliance of 14 opposition parties ranging from the conservative business organization COSEP to Nicaraguan communists.

Opposition parties are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power, though the country remains peaceful.

Opposition parties are now legally allowed to form following the adoption of the new Constitution.

The Conservatives won 49, the newly-formed Progressive Party won 58 ( but declined to form the official Opposition ), and the remaining ten seats went to fringe parties and Independents ; most of these ten supported the Progressives.

The Official Opposition and other major political parties not in the Government, will mirror the governmental organisation with their own Shadow Cabinet made up of Shadow Ministers.

Immediately, street protests and rallies filled cities across the country as Serbs rallied around Vojislav Koštunica, the recently formed Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS, a broad coalition of anti-Milošević parties ) candidate for FRY president.

Opposition parties alleged that serious irregularities occurred.

Opposition parties won a majority of parliamentary seats in the December, 2001 election, but subsequent by-elections gave the ruling MMD a slim majority in Parliament.

In 2009, Opposition parties held a filibuster against a local government bill, and those who could recorded their voice votes in Māori, all faithfully interpreted.

A campaign of civil resistance followed, led by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a broad coalition of anti-Milošević parties.

Opposition political parties, though still illegal, were allowed to form without harassment or arrest.

Opposition parties have not held more than four parliamentary seats since 1984, until 2011 when the Worker's Party won 6 seats and won a GRC for the first time for any opposition party.

Three of those parties joined the Left Opposition in signing a document written by Trotsky calling for a Fourth International, which became known as the " Declaration of Four ".

These reports follow a widely publicised signing of a Meromandum of Understanding between the Government and Opposition parties, initiated by the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo during a recent visit to the country.

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.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

In February 1997 the five-party Front of Opposition Parties ( FPO ), including the UFD-EN, was formed ; it boycotted the December 1997 presidential election, in which President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya was easily re-elected.

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.

The PQ was unable to maintain this momentum, and in the 2007 provincial election, the party fell to 36 seats and behind the conservative Action démocratique du Québec ( ADQ ) in number of seats and the popular vote: this is the first time since 1973 that the party did not form the government or Official Opposition.

The Saskatchewan Party served as the province's Official Opposition until the provincial election on November 7, 2007.

Russell Cunningham was the only CCF leader to serve as Leader of the Opposition after the 1945 provincial election in which Premier Angus L. Macdonald's Liberal Party swept 28 of the 30 seats and the Tories were wiped out.

Opposition to the Congress revolved around the opinion that the provincial houses of assembly were the proper agencies to solicit redress for grievances.

He was elected to the legislature in the 1911 provincial election representing Oxford North and became Leader of the Opposition.

Hay resigned following a disastrous election result, and Sinclair served as interim leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 1923 to 1930 and also as Leader of the Opposition in the provincial legislature.

He remained Leader of the Opposition until the 1934 election because the newly-elected leader, Mitchell Hepburn, did not have a seat in the provincial legislature.

He served prominent posts in two provincial legislatures as Leader of the Opposition in Ontario and as a Cabinet Minister in Alberta.

Archibald McKellar ( 3 February 1816 – 11 February 1894 ) was briefly leader of Canada's Ontario Liberal Party from 1867 to 1868 and, unofficially, the first Leader of the Opposition in Ontario's new provincial legislature ( though he was not officially recognised as such ) and went on to serve as Commissioner of Public Works in Ontario Premier Oliver Mowat's first government.

It is the Official Opposition and currently holds six seats in the provincial legislature.

He was re-elected without difficulty in the provincial election of 1999, and served as Chief Opposition Whip from 1999 to 2002.

In Canada, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (), commonly known as the Official Opposition, is usually the largest parliamentary opposition party in the House of Commons or a provincial legislative assembly that is not in government, either on its own or as part of a governing coalition.

Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1875 from the riding of Lillooet and began as a supporter of the government of George Anthony Walkem but soon joined the Opposition.

Also, in federal countries, such as Canada and Australia, the phrase Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is also employed in provincial or state legislatures, in the same fashion as in other parliaments.

He was elected to the provincial legislature for Rosetown-Biggar in the 1999 provincial election and became Leader of the Opposition.

The Liberals lost the 1990 provincial election, though Mahoney was re-elected without difficulty and became Chief Opposition Whip.

Under her leadership, the party grew significantly: in the 1995 provincial election, it increased its caucus in the Legislative Assembly to eleven, becoming the Official Opposition.

Robert William " Bob " Runciman ( born August 10, 1942 ) is a veteran Canadian politician and former provincial Leader of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature.

After the Ontario Liberal Party under Mitchell Hepburn took power in the 1934 provincial election Ellis moved to the Opposition bench where he achieved prominence as finance critic.

The MLA for Charlottetown-Rochford Square ( now Charlottetown-Brighton ) served as Leader of the Official Opposition in the provincial legislature from 2003-2007.

In 1985, he returned to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as the provincial Liberal MHA for Fortune-Hermitage, and briefly served as interim Leader of the Opposition.