Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

Opposition figures who lived among the exile communities in Spain and elsewhere agitated for reforms ; some of them had been employed in the Macías and Obiang governments.

Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

In the subsequent power struggle among Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin, who positioned himself as centrist of the Party and supported NEP against the Left Opposition, which wanted more rapid industrialization, escalation of class struggle against the kulaks, and agitation for world revolution.

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.

On the other hand, Brandt needed a while to get into contact with, and to earn credibility among, the " Ausserparlamentarische Opposition " ( APO ) (" the extra-parliamentary opposition ").

Opposition to the Lend-Lease bill was strongest among isolationist Republicans in Congress, who feared that the measure would be " the longest single step this nation has yet taken toward direct involvement in the war abroad.

** by consensus among the Government and Opposition ;

Opposition to the absorption of million of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe was especially strong among eugenicists such as scientists Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, who believed in the " racial " superiority of Americans of Northern European descent as member of the " Nordic race ", and therefore demanded immigration restrictions to stop a " degeneration " of America's white racial " stock ".

Opposition to oath-taking among some groups of Christian caused many problems for these groups throughout their history.

Opposition was centered among the black activists of the civil rights movement, and college students at elite universities.

During 2002 the Labor Party approved a series of reforms proposed by new Opposition leader Simon Crean, among them the direct election of the party's National President by the party membership ( the post had previously been filled by election at the party's National Conference ) and a reduction of the union's representation at party conferences from 60 % to 50 %.

In December 1898 the crisis arrived and, with Morley, Harcourt retired from the party and resigned his Leadership of the Opposition, alleging as his reason, in letters to Morley, the cross-currents of opinion among his old supporters and former colleagues.

This caused significant rifts among the Opposition parties.

-The social-democratic Komala ( not to be confused with the communist Komalah with an h ), although an important party, can't be classified among the four powerful party of the Opposition cited above since its modest activities are only concentrated in the kurdish-inhabited provinces of Iran.

According to reforms of the late 1990s, some 500 hereditary nobles elect 92 Lords from among themselves to exercise voting rights in the House of Lords ; there are also some 600 Life Peers nominated by the Government and Opposition.

The 14 nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs correspond to the 92 Lords chosen from among the nobles, while the nominees of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition correspond to Britain's Life Peers ( although, unlike Life Peers, they are term-limited ).

Opposition arose among the powerful paulista coffee oligarchs to these unprecedented mass interventionist policies, as well as to the increased centralization of the government, its increasing populist and fascist stance, its protectionist / mercantilist policies ( protecting politically favored producers at the expense of consumers ) and the increasing dictatorial stance of Vargas himself.

Opposition to the war among munitions workers continued to rise and what had been a united front in favour of the war became two sharply divided groups.

For most of the 19th century, there was rarely any one person who could be considered Leader of the Opposition — those figures who took leading roles in opposing the government of the day were merely " first among equals ", and had no formal office.

Opposition to circumcision exists among Jews in Israel.

Opposition to the project, however, was strong among the 5, 000 Crees of James Bay, the 3, 500 Inuit to the north and several environmental groups.

Opposition among the Cree was even more vocal this time than in the early 1970s.

Paul Forseth was also among the very few MPs in Parliamentary history to ever have his Private Members Bill, coming from the Opposition side of the House, cooperatively taken over by the government and incorporated into a larger piece Government Legislation.

Only one other party reached the 7 % threshold: the Rightist Opposition with ca.

< p > In 1927, when the struggle reached an especially bitter stage, Stalin declared at a session of the Central Committee, addressing himself to the Opposition: “ Those cadres can be removed only by civil war !” What was a threat in Stalin ’ s words became, thanks to a series of defeats of the European proletariat, a historic fact.

Opposition agents in London were eventually able to acquire some of his letters, which reached members of the Sons of Liberty in April 1769.

He remained Leader of the Opposition in the Senate until September 30, 2004, and retired from Parliament when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 on June 19, 2005.

When news of the battle reached Britain, the Opposition in Parliament questioned the sending of such a small force against the convoy, and forced an official inquiry into the administration of the Royal Navy.

Opposition to his attempts to enforce Anglican practices reached a flashpoint when he introduced a Book of Common Prayer.

In 1996, Kennett and the then Opposition Leader John Brumby, reached an agreement for the building to be completed by the turn of the century but the idea was abandoned when the trade unions would not guarantee that the project would go ahead without industrial disputes.

: Opposition to entering the Union was so strong, … ( that a vote to adopt the Constitution ) was delayed until the last week in May, and when on the 29th, a decision was reached, the vote stood thirty-four to thirty-two in favor of adopting the Constitution.

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.

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

Many members of the Workers ' Opposition and the Decists ( both later banned ) and two new underground Left Communist groups, Gavril Myasnikov's Workers ' Group and the Workers ' Truth group, developed the idea that Russia was becoming a state capitalist society governed by a new bureaucratic class.

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

Although the new party was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader, and thus became Leader of the Opposition.

The new Republican Party was not fully formed, and significant numbers of politicians, mostly former Whigs, ran for office under the Opposition label.

During a new period of intra-Party fighting between the July 1926 meeting of the Central Committee and the XVth Party Conference in October 1926, the Opposition was defeated and Kamenev lost his Politburo seat at the Conference.

Deborah Grey, the deputy leader of Reform, was chosen as the new party's interim leader, becoming the first female Leader of the Opposition in Canadian history.

He was unlucky to come up against a new and formidable Labor Opposition Leader in Gough Whitlam.

When Whitlam won the election, McMahon resigned the Liberal leadership and was replaced by Snedden, who became the new Opposition Leader.

Joseph LyonsAlthough the new party was basically the Nationalist Party under a new name, Lyons was chosen as leader of the party ( and thus became Leader of the Opposition ) rather than the old Nationalist leader John Latham, as it was recognised that ( as an affable family man with the common touch ) he was a far more electorally appealing figure than the aloof Latham, and his Labor background and his Catholicism would allow him to win traditional Labor support groups ( working-class voters and Irish Catholics ) over to the new party.

Lang replied that he would not resign, and Game dismissed his government and commissioned the Leader of the Opposition, Bertram Stevens, to form a caretaker government pending new elections, in which Labor was defeated.

Despite this exclusion, members of the commons must still express their loyalty to the monarch and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be recited by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seat, and the official opposition is traditionally dubbed as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

The Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany, a left split from the Social Democratic Party of Germany founded in 1931, co-operated with the International Left Opposition briefly in 1933 but soon abandoned the call for a new International.

Stalin now moved against Bukharin by appropriating Trotsky's criticisms of his right wing policies and he promoted a new general line favouring collectivization of the peasantry and rapid industrialization of industry forcing Bukharin and his supporters into a Right Opposition.

Following a Cabinet split on 25 May 1915, caused by the Shell Crisis ( or sometimes dubbed ' The Great Shell Shortage ') and the failed offensive at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli, Asquith became head of a new coalition government, bringing senior figures from the Opposition into the Cabinet.

As the Opposition was unable to come up with the numbers to form the new government, Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's Parliament was again dissolved and fresh elections were held.

Opposition to the Act inspired both political and constitutional forms of literature throughout the colonies, strengthened the colonial political perception and involvement, and created new forms of organized resistance.

In his new role as Leader of the Opposition and party leader he set about modernising and revitalising Fine Gael.

The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.