In 1922 Labour became the official opposition.

After the results were announced on 9 December, there was violent unrest in Kinshasa and Mbuji-Mayi, where official tallies showed that a strong majority had voted for the opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi.

Five NNP parliamentary members, including two cabinet ministers, left the party in 1986-87 and formed the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) which became the official opposition.

It became the official opposition in 1999, a minority government in 2007 and a majority government from 2011.

Questionable judicial proceedings against opposition candidates and parties limited the choice of candidates available to Kyrgyz voters, while state-controlled media only reported favorably on official candidates.

Questionable judicial proceedings against opposition candidates and parties limited the choice of candidates available to Kyrgyz voters, while state-controlled media reported favorably on official candidates only and government officials put pressure on independent media outlets that favored the opposition.

In the summer of 1925, Radek was appointed Provost of the newly established Sun Yat-Sen University, where Radek collected information for the opposition from students about the situation in China and cautiously began to challenge the official Comintern policy.

Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.

FRELIMO won, under Joaquim Chissano, while RENAMO, led by Afonso Dhlakama, ran as the official opposition.

A Liberal Party faction, the Renovation Movement, returned to Paraguay to become the " official " opposition, leaving the remainder of the Liberal Party, which renamed itself the Radical Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal Radical-PLR ), in exile.

All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index ".

After thirteen years as the official opposition, the Party returned to power as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2010.

" But the official recognition and the crown's approval to his undertaking could not save him from the censure and ceaseless opposition of the divines, and in 1550, to escape the violence of his persecutors, he emigrated to Geneva where he set up his printing house.

Kennedy made this preference clear by inviting Brandt, the West German opposition leader, to an official meeting at the White House a month before meeting with Adenauer, the country ’ s leader.

The party did manage to become Canada's official opposition.

The opposition tang wai activists seized upon the new image of the Plains aborigines as a means to directly challenge the KMT's official narrative of Taiwan as a historical part of China, and the government's assertion that Taiwanese were " pure " Han Chinese (; ).

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.

At that time unemployed, she became active in opposition to official U. S. policies in Central America.

The law makes official the music with no lyrics, since opposition parties felt the Arana text too religious and linked to PNV.

Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.

As a result of the Bloc being the official opposition, it had considerable privileges over the other parties despite only electing MPs from one province.

In the 1997 federal election, the Bloc Québécois dropped to 44 seats, losing official opposition status to the Reform Party.

The split in the Tory / Conservative party over the repeal of the Corn Laws had profound implications for Disraeli's political career: almost every Conservative politician with official experience followed Peel, leaving the rump bereft of leadership.

Ravi Batra argues that " all official economic measures adopted since 1981 ... have devastated the middle class " and that the Occupy Wall Street movement should push for their repeal and thus end the influence of the super wealthy in the political process, which he considers a manifestation of crony capitalism.

He maintained Catholicism's status as the official state religion but tried to curb the church's political powers and to encourage religious tolerance as a means of attracting Protestant immigrants and traders.

The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception ; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

By the time Gorbachev ushered in the process that would lead to the dismantling of the Soviet administrative command economy through his programs of glasnost ( political openness ), uskoreniye ( speed-up of economic development ) and perestroika ( political and economic restructuring ) announced in 1986, the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy.

In 1831, reflecting a liberalization of official British racial attitudes, the Brown Privilege Bill conferred political and social rights on free nonwhites.

He wrote " Dialectical thinking should be taken more seriously by Western scholars, not discarded because some nations of the second world have constructed a cardboard version as an official political doctrine.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

Parliament has two meeting places, namely the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg, France, which serves for twelve four-day plenary sessions per year and is the official seat, and the Espace Léopold () complex in Brussels, Belgium, the larger of the two, which serves for committee meetings, political groups and complementary plenary sessions.

After his expulsion became official in January 1831, he attempted to start a private class in advanced algebra which attracted some interest, but this waned, as it seemed that his political activism had priority.

Following the 2008 revision of the EU Regulation that governs European political parties allowing the creation of European foundations affiliated to Europarties, the EFA established in September 2007 its official foundation / think tank, the Centre Maurits Coppieters ( CMC ).

On 16 June 1953 the Common Assembly passed a resolution enabling the official formation of political groups, and on 23 June 1953 the constituent declaration of the group was published and the group was officially formed.

In most present-day contexts however, in general the term Flanders is taken to refer to either the political, social, cultural, and linguistic community ( and the corresponding official institution, the Flemish Community ), or the geographical area, one of the three institutional regions in Belgium, namely the Flemish Region.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

About half of political prisoners in the Gulag camps were imprisoned without trial ; official data suggest that there were over 2. 6 million sentences to imprisonment on cases investigated by the secret police throughout 1921-1953.

However, according to the official data, the total number of sentences for political and antistate ( espionage, terrorism ) crimes in USSR in 1939-41 was 211, 106.

Under a right-wing military dictatorship, Spain saw its political parties banned, except for the official party ( Falange ).

His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of " Journalist.

The defeat of the Liberal government in the following year terminated Lord Aberdare's official political life, and he subsequently devoted himself to social, educational and economic questions.

Although the subject of the charge is criminal action, it does not constitute a criminal trial ; the only question under consideration is the removal of the individual from office, and the possibility of a subsequent vote preventing the removed official from ever again holding political office in the jurisdiction where he was removed.

After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800, 000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1. 7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390, 000 deaths during kulak forced resettlementwith a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

The NDA was not recognized as an official political party at that time.