Sentences with phrase «main opposition party»

UKIP came a strong third, gaining over 20 % of the votes but no seats, leaving them with 5 seats on the council and losing their status as main opposition party.

However, as the leader of the UK's main opposition party there is at least a theoretical possibility that he will one day be in the position of deciding whether or not Britain should take military action to defend our neighbours and allies.

This is not the trend usually associated with main opposition parties as the mid-term of a parliament approaches.

The state main opposition party also condemned the recent political rally held in Okene where over 10,000 PDP members reportedly decamped to the ruling all progressives Congress (APC).

Maduro's government has had success sidelining the country's political opposition, circumventing the opposition - controlled legislature, securing electoral victories with the help of fraud and dirty tricks, and working to block main opposition parties from future elections.

Quebec's two main opposition parties launched the first full day of the provincial election campaign attacking what they see as the weak flanks of the Parti Québécois on the economy and public finances.

It is hence not surprising that a significant portion of Turkey's society, which also feels unrepresented by the infighting - plagued main opposition party, was ready to go to the streets, when the initial protests over the shopping centre were brutally repressed.

Mr Olympio, former leader of Togo's main opposition party reconciled with President Faure Gnassingbé, son of the late President Eyadema in a unity govt, which saw him take a senior position in the Togolese State.

Rejecting the leadership of the current main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress is like leaving Pharaoh and his task masters.

The country's main opposition party also decried the removal of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, in a high - profile test of judicial independence in military - dominated Pakistan.»

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Japan's Jiji news agency on Monday quoted a senior member of the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, saying Kuroda met its criteria for BOJ Governor so he would be hard to oppose.

5 - Star was founded in 2009 and has risen rapidly to become Italy's main opposition party.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she would raise human rights concerns with leaders in Myanmar, which has been criticised for its crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, and Cambodia, which has dissolved the main opposition party and jailed government critics.

However, it would have been far better for us all if he had been held to account in a court of law,» said Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Labour, the main opposition party.

Both of the main opposition parties have pledged a careful review of the TPP, once the final document becomes available.

«The Government and the main opposition party are heading into the national election boasting that each will achieve a fiscal surplus in the coming year.

This didn't happen at the last UK election in 2015, but did begin to manifest itself at last year's Scottish parliament election, when the party became the main opposition party.

Zimbabwe faced united condemnation from the international community last night as the UN security council approved a statement criticising violence against its main opposition party.

She is determined to displace Labour as the main opposition party.

@JonathanReez - by small party I refer to one not being the main opposition party or having less than 10 % of total parliament members.

I expect that the main opposition party to frequently gain power.

With polls suggesting the Tories could challenge Labour as the main opposition party in Scotland, our fifth most - read item this week was an interview with the Scottish Conservative Leader, Ruth Davidson.

The latest report comes at a time, Ghana's main opposition party has consistently been misleading the public with selective reports about the performance of the economies in the two named countries particularly.

The Cumbrian semi-rural seat of Copeland was seized by the Conservatives — the first time the main opposition party has lost a seat it was defending in a byelection since 1982.

The main opposition party was reacting to the inability of the President to return to Nigeria from the UK, where he had been on holiday for more than 10 days.

When the main opposition party is so weak, as Labour still is today, Balls says, «the prism of politics becomes the succession within the governing party», hence the obsession with the rivalry between Blairites and Brownites.

In particular, I focus on the lead for the main opposition party over the principal governing party.

The main opposition party stated that Buhari is...

Though the NDC has suffered similar internal wrangling in the past, party insiders say the main opposition party may not be lucky to survive the on - going bickering in the party if «what people are planning against each other is allowed to fester.»

The recordings, which became known as the «spy tapes», were kept secret but finally released in 2014 to the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), after a five - year legal battle.

Following a boycott of the December 1992 Parliamentary elections by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, under allegations of malpractices in the presidential, there was a decision to hold both elections on the same day so as to be able to prevent a similar boycott in the future.

Echoing the view of Green party leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley that the three main opposition parties should stand aside for each other in some seats, Green members have decided to support Huq because she has met three conditions: she broke a Labour whip to vote against the triggering of article 50, opposed Heathrow airport expansion, and supports voting reform.

And to do so, he had to rely on the support of dissenters from the main opposition party.

In Spain, the Socialists have had to concede their position as the main opposition party to the recently created radical left party Podemos and may have to wait several years until Spanish voters will give them another chance.

One of Angola's main opposition parties plans to contest the results of last week's general election, alleging unfair conduct during the vote that kept the ruling party of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in power.

The Assin North MP said the Danquah - Busia - Dombo tradition simply has no proof about their allegations since the governing party had launched its manifesto ahead of the main opposition party.

Inaugurating the South African branch of the NPP in May 2016, at Illovo in Johannesburg, the three - time presidential candidate of the main opposition party noted, the NDC's bid to play the age card to secure victory in the 2016 elections will not wash.

The 163 page report, which is very detailed on current affairs on the African continent, also mentioned the leader of Togo's main opposition party, the National Alliance for Change (ANC), Mr. Jean - Pierre Fabre, who challenged the incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe 2010 and 2015 but lost as the second most peaceful opposition leader in Africa and the best within the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWA) Sub-region region.

We now fight on the terms of the opposition or the main opposition party.

Meanwhile, suspended 2nd vice chairman of the party, Sammy Crabbe has insisted that Paul Afoko is still the National Chairman of the main opposition party.

In seats like Eastleigh and Rotherham, where Ukip are now the main opposition party on the council, they can start to put the squeeze on the Tories, arguing that even if they can't win outright in 2015, they are the only credible opposition to the incumbent.

Labour has, however, supplanted the Conservatives as the main opposition party (albeit still 15 seats short of the Liberal Democrats) and the Greens continue to hold their own in Callowland ward, pushing the Conservatives into the smallest party position.