Gender and Opposition Leadership in the Pacific Islands by Kerryn Baker, Jack Corbett

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An Attack on Indian Democracy by Anmol Jain

“…The bill proposes the creation of a three-member Selection Committee composed of the Prime Minister, a Union Minister nominated by the Prime Minister, and the Leader of the Opposition to make recommendations to the President in this regard. …”
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Adversarial Interaction in Prime Minister’s Questions in the UK by Peter Bull, Maurice Waddle

“…The event is notorious for its adversarial discourse, especially for the gladiatorial encounters between Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. Their encounters form the focus of this paper, in which, through the reporting of previous studies, we explore five distinctive features of PMQs discourse: face-threats, personal attacks, the rhetorical use of quotations, equivocation, and traditional forms of address; in a sixth study, we also discuss the potential political functions of adversarial opposition. …”
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Chock, angela, soprano, Malaysia by Ang, Lay Hoon

“…Next is Indonesia, with names such as businessmen Soedono Salim - better known as Liem Sioe Liong - and banker Mochtar Riady; followed by Malaysia, with notables such as Malayan Communist Party leader Chin Peng, opposition politician Lim Kit Siang and badminton champ Lee Chong Wei.…”

Keine Reform des konstitutionellen Parlamentsrechts: Kenias gescheiterte Building Bridges Initiative als eine institutionenpolitisch verpasste Chance? by Danny Schindler

“…Against the background of this failure for procedural reasons, the paper evaluates the initiative’s most important proposals in the realm of constitutional parliamentary law, i.e. the introduction both of a prime minister and the office of the leader of the opposition. For that purpose, the reform coalition’s own claims and intentions serve as a yardstick. …”
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Ontario's empire: liberalism and 'Britannic' nationalism in Laurier's Canada, 1887-1919 by Thompson, G

“…In particular, the thesis focuses on a group of liberal intellectuals and politicians who resided in or originated from the province of Ontario and associated with Laurier during his reign as Prime Minister and leader of the Opposition. It reinterprets their debates in global and local contexts, specifically through the lens of a 'Greater Ontario' - a virtual province of Canada and the British world comprised of 'Old' Ontario, with its metropolis at Toronto, and the 'neo-Ontarian' settler empire of the Prairie West. …”

Taib's lengthy leadership due to people's trust, say analyst by Borneo Post, (KK)

“…KUCJING: Leaders of the opposition pact should evaluate what they have done for the people all this while before attacking the leadership of Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Talib Mahmud, said several political analysts. …”
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Rahul Gandhi’s Disqualification and the Future of Political Opposition in India by Anmol Jain

“…The disqualification of Rahul Gandhi – one of the most prominent leaders of the opposition from the India National Congress (“INC”) – is another episode of the degeneration of democracy in India.…”
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Local action groups and the LEADER co-financing of rural development projects in Slovenia by Alenka VOLK, Štefan BOJNEC

“…The informal system of performance of the LAG board members was found to influence significantly its members' perception on the suitability of projects to be co-financed by the LEADER axis. The opposite was established for the formal system, which had an insignificant influence on the board members' perception on the suitability of projects.…”
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NARSEH SASSANID AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE REIGN IN PERSIA FROM 274 ТО 293 by Melikyan Arthur

“…Only after the leaders of Iranian opposition were removed, from 282 to 290, Nerseh began an evident struggle for the throne. …”
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Partnership and Rescue Party and the Transformation of Political Opposition in Jordan by Abdulgani Bozkurt, Muhammed Ünalmış

“…The argumentation in the article is built on primary sources, including interviews with the opposition leaders and prominent opposition members.…”
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Parliamentary Women Opposition Leaders: A Comparative Assessment Across 28 OECD Countries by Sarah C. Dingler, Ludger Helms

“…In this article, opposition leaders are understood as the parliamentary party group leaders of the largest non-governing party in a given legislative assembly, which marks the closest equivalent to the Westminster understanding of leaders of the opposition that continues to dominate international notions of opposition leaders and oppositional leadership in parliamentary democracies. …”
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STRENGTHENING OF “POWER VERTICAL”: ALLOCATION AND PROMOTION OF REGIONAL LEADERS IN MODERN CHINA by I. Yu. Zuenko

“…That can be explained by the situation before 2012 when most of regional leaders were potentially opposite to Xi Jinping and his “faction”. …”
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Desinformación y derecho de autodeterminación: la población catalana en la diana by Elena Llorca-Asensi, María Elena Fabregat, Raúl Ruiz-Callado

“…Thus, while legal experts deny that Catalonia is entitled to invoke the "right to self-determination of peoples" to obtain its independence, some civil associations, the media and, above all, political leaders, claim the opposite or make inaccurate statements which, in an attempt to deny this right, increase popular confusion. …”
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The Party System in Contemporary Japan: from the LDP Dominance to a Real Multiparty System by D. V. STRELTSOV

“…However, the  specificity of the electoral system, as well as the chronic state of split and the absence of strong political leaders in the opposition camp,  give the LDP substantial advantages against other parties, feeding  the conclusion that the LDP will remain the dominant political force  of Japan in the foreseeable future.…”
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