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.

Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.

During this period, financial problems again almost forced Attlee to quit politics, as his wife was ill and there was then no separate salary for the Leader of the Opposition.

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

This decision was criticised by the Opposition, which had initiated the review when in power, and the review process was questioned by a leading academic.

Opposition to the absolute monarchy was immediately expressed in the streets of Paris as suppressed deputies, gagged journalists, students from the University and many working men of Paris poured into the streets and erected barricades during the " three glorious days " ( French Les Trois Glorieuses ) of 26 – 29 July 1830.

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 to Zogu was formidable.

Opposition from senior Iraqi officials, together with the poor security situation, meant that Bremer's privatization plan was not implemented during his tenure, though his orders remain in place.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Radek was part of the Left Opposition from 1923, writing his famed article ' Leon Trotsky: Organizer of Victory ' shortly after Lenin's stroke in January of that year.

After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power ( 1927 ), expelled from the Communist Party, and finally deported from the Soviet Union ( 1929 ).

After a short period as Leader of the Opposition and now more than 75 years old, St-Laurent's motivation to be involved in politics was gone.

Opposition to the use of violence has not prohibited anarcho-pacifists from accepting the principle of resistance or even revolutionary action ( see: non-violent revolution ) provided it does not result in violence ; it was in fact their approval of such forms of opposition to power that lead many anarcho-pacifists to endorse the anarcho-syndicalist concept of the general strike as the great revolutionary weapon.

Opposition leader and then-mayor of Antananarivo, Andry Rajoelina, led a movement in early 2009 in which Ravalomanana was pushed from power in an unconstitutional process widely condemned as a coup d ' état.

In December 2011, Fraser was highly critical of the Australian government's decision ( also supported by the Liberal Party Opposition ) to permit the export of uranium to India, relaxing the Fraser government's policy of banning sales of uranium to countries that are not signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

He was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.

Opposition to his policy of National Reconciliation was met party-wide, but especially from Karmalists.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

Opposition to Stalin by Trotsky led to a dissident Bolshevik ideology called Trotskyism that was repressed under Stalin's rule.

He led the Official Opposition until 1993 and was spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade until 1999.

He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history to date, and the longest never to have become Prime Minister.

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.

Regular, fixed sessions have taken place since 1961, and the list below outlines the prime ministers since 1961 and Opposition party leaders they faced across the floor of the House of Commons:

Votes, or divisions, are taken by entering lobbies to the left and right of the chamber to have one's vote tallied ; the " Aye Lobby " is on the Government side and the " No Lobby " on the Opposition side.

However, after several months of hearings, the Opposition majority on the committee recommended that no further action be taken to advance the bill.

The " Opposition " is taken to be the members of all political parties in the House of Representatives, except those that support the Prime Minister.

After Conservative leader Louis-Olivier Taillon had lost the 1890 election and his own seat, Jean Blanchet had taken over as Leader of the Opposition to the Mercier government.

This theory was criticized politically and associated with Trotsky and the Left Opposition, but in fact was put into practice by Stalin in the 1930s, as when Joseph Stalin said, in his speech to The Captains of Industry, that the USSR had to accomplish in a decade what England had taken centuries to do in terms of economic development in order to be prepared for an invasion from the West.

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.

According to, " n Opposition Division shall consist of three technically qualified examiners, at least two of whom shall not have taken part in the proceedings for grant of the patent to which the opposition relates.

This decision meant that the Liberals lost their status as members of the Official Opposition ( this place being taken by the National Party alone ).

He had been charged, through the voice of Miron Constantinescu, with " grave deviations " and taking a " right wing opportunistic line, breaking away from the working classes " ( see Right Opposition ); in addition to sharing the blame, Pauker was accused of having taken a " left wing opportunistic line " ( see Left Opposition ) on various issues.

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 federal level, the social democratic New Democratic Party now forms the Official Opposition ( Canada ) after winning 102 / 308 seats ( up from 37 ) in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

The moderate " Broad Opposition Front " ( Frente Amplio Opositor-FAO ) which opposed Somoza was made up of a conglomeration of dissidents within the government as well as the " Democratic Union of Liberation " ( UDEL ) and the " Twelve ", representatives of the Terceristas.

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.

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

I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

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.

Accepting moral responsibility for the defeat, he decided not to take up the position of the Leader of the Opposition and passed on the leadership mantle to Lal Krishna Advani.

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.

Opposition to war has led peace activists, such as Ammon Hennacy and Ellen Thomas, to a form of tax resistance in which they reduce their income below the tax threshold by taking up a simple living lifestyle.

These questions may be asked by the same Member of Parliament to follow up on the answer provided to the lead question, or they may be given to another member of the Official Opposition.

In the days leading up to the testing, Denis Healey, the Opposition defence spokesman, had criticised the aircraft saying that by the time it was introduced it would face " new anti-aircraft " missiles that would shoot it down making it prohibitively expensive at £ 16 million per aircraft ( on the basis of only 30 ordered ).

" Further leadership changes took place in the early 1920s, and Party members accused of being Trotskyites were expelled ; of these, Heinrich Brandler, August Thalheimer and Paul Frölich set up a splinter Communist Party Opposition.

Opposition leaders normally ask an opening question to the First Minister, relating to his meeting with the Scottish Cabinet, or when he next expects to meet the Prime Minister, and then follow this up by asking a supplementary question on an issue of their choosing.

In the lead up to the 2005 general election, Leader of the Opposition Don Brash suggested that should a National-led government be elected, he would reverse Labour's changes and re-introduce knighthoods.

Members of the Opposition had by that point took up " liar " as a chant, which put Sir Billy in the position where he would have to name every Member, one by one.

He was in fact denounced as a sexually ambiguous figure in his time most notably by William Pulteney, then leader of the Opposition and as cited above, by Alexander Pope in his " Sporus " portrait: " Let Sporus tremble / What that thing of silk ... His wit all seesaw between that and this / Now high, now low, now master up, now miss / And he himself one vile antitheseis ...".

At these elections the former reformist alliance, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ), had broken up into three parts: Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, late Prime Minister Đinđić's Democratic Party ( now led by Boris Tadić ) and the G17 Plus group of liberal economists led by Miroljub Labus.

He moved up to the Opposition frontbench as a trade and industry spokesman under Michael Howard in 2003.

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

Opposition politicians immediately demanded her resignation and stepped up mass protests against the government.

Mercier gave up the post of Liberal leader ( and leader of the Opposition ) to Félix-Gabriel Marchand, and was later acquitted of all charges.

The Federal Opposition ( the Liberal-National Coalition at that time ) demanded an enquiry to what they saw as a " rort " and the Keating ALP Government set up a Royal Commission.