I will spare a quick paragraph on opposition movements. (justarsenal.com)
The gains of the far - right, anti-immigrant AfD party were also bigger than predicted, and the party could establish itself as a vocal opposition movement to the right of Merkel's CDU. (washingtonpost.com)
The incumbents in Beijing seem convinced that the communist regimes in the former Soviet bloc fell mainly because their rulers were too soft and unwilling to use force to crush opposition movements. (fortune.com)