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3 unusual facts about Leader of the Opposition


Kurt Schumacher

Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 – 20 August 1952), was a German social democratic politician, who served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and was the first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag from 1949 until his death.

Leader of the Independent Members

(While "Leader of the Opposition" is a position found throughout the Commonwealth realms, "Leader of the Independent Members" is specific to Solomon Islands.)

Article 66 of the Constitution creates the functions of Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Independent Members, which are separate.


8th Manitoba Legislature

William A. Macdonald served as Leader of the Opposition in 1893.

Bill Hassell

He was Leader of the Opposition between 1984 and 1986 before being replaced by Barry MacKinnon.

BLT

The article went on to explain that the then Leader of the Opposition William Hague had accused the then Prime Minister Tony Blair of being a hypocrite with regards to food, telling one portion of society that his favourite meal was fish and chips and another that it was a fresh fettuccine dish.

Carty Salmon

His eulogy was delivered by the Archbishop of Melbourne, and both Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Leader of the Opposition Matthew Charlton attended his funeral.

Cranborne Money

In addition to the above funds, the salaries of the Leader of the Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords (currently the Conservative Party), which

Geoff Pearsall

After Max Bingham stepped down as Leader of the Opposition following the July 1979 election, which had seen a swing to the incumbent Labor Party in Premier Doug Lowe's first election as leader, Pearsall was elected unopposed as leader on 7 August, with Robin Gray as deputy leader.

James Douglas Henderson

Because Werner Schmidt lead the Social Credit party from outside the legislature from 1973 to 1975, Henderson was recognized as the Leader of the Opposition for a portion of 1973.

John Gilbert Higgins

As party leader Harry Mews failed to win his seat, Higgins became the province's first Leader of the Opposition.

Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation

A former chief of the First Nation, Eric Fairclough, was leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party and leader of the opposition in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.

Ontario Model Parliament

In the past, such speakers have included John Tory (Leader of the Opposition for Ontario), James K. Bartleman, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and Rex Murphy, political commentator and host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Cross Country Checkup. Ontario Model Parliament celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011.

PISA 2012

The Leader of the Opposition, Social Democrat Stefan Löfven, described the situation as a national crisis.

PNS Mehran attack

Nisar Ali Khan, leader of the opposition in the parliament, also called the breach of PNS Mehran, a massive security negligence and called for summoning an open meeting of the joint parliamentary standing committee whereby the people responsible for the lapse be identified.

Richard Robson

The following day, the Leader of the Opposition, George Leake, read a letter written to the House by Robson as a private citizen; in it, Robson admitted that he ought not to have made references to Members being without visible means of support, but added "I was justified in saying that the Government was rotten and corrupt, and that statement I have not withdrawn".

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra

He was Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha from December 1969 to March 1971.

South Australian state election, 2010

The centre-left Labor Party, led by Premier Mike Rann, and the centre-right Liberal Party, led by Leader of the Opposition Isobel Redmond, are the two main parties in South Australia.

The incumbent centre-left Labor Party government led by Premier Mike Rann was elected to a third four-year term over the opposition centre-right Liberal Party led by Leader of the Opposition Isobel Redmond.

Tomasi Kanailagi

(Under the Constitution, 9 of the 32 Senate seats are filled by nominees of the Prime Minister; a further 8 are chosen by the Leader of the Opposition, 14 by the Great Council of Chiefs, and 1 by the Council of Rotuma).

United Bermuda Party

Following the loss of his seat in the December 2007 elections, Dunkley was replaced as Leader of the Opposition by Kim Swan.


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2006–08 Lebanese political protests

On April 8, 2007, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the opposition, declared the situation deadlocked, but expressed an unwillingness to escalate the protests into a civil war.

40th Quebec Legislature

Pauline Marois (PQ) is the premier and Jean-Marc Fournier (Liberal) is the leader of the opposition (the party's leader, Philippe Couillard, does not currently hold a seat).

Anne Golden

She was director of research for the Ontario Liberal Party and special advisor to the Leader of the Opposition.

Anuruddha Ratwatte

Anuruddha Ratwatte had been a Councillor in the Kandy Municipal Council representing the United National Party In the late 1960s later in 1980s Leader of the Opposition in the Kandy Municipal Council representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

Barry O'Farrell

When John Howard became Leader of the Opposition in 1985, his chief of staff, Gerard Henderson, hired O'Farrell as a Sydney-based adviser.

Beechy, Saskatchewan

Represented Beechy on the federal level as the Member of Parliament for Kindersley—Lloydminster and was the Reform Party House Leader and then represented the area provincially, becoming the first leader of the Saskatchewan Party and Leader of the Opposition until 2003 when he relinquished the leadership.

Bill Hodgman

William Clark Hodgman was the father of politicians Michael Hodgman and Peter Hodgman, and the grandfather of the current Leader of the Opposition, Will Hodgman.

Chief Justice of the Bahamas

Under Article 94(1), the Governor-General appoints the Chief Justice on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

Hawarden Kite

The Hawarden Kite was a famous British scoop of 1885, an apparent instance of flying a kite, when Herbert Gladstone, son of the then Leader of the Opposition William Ewart Gladstone revealed to Edmund Rogers of the National Press Agency in London that his father now supported home rule for Ireland.

History of the Republic of Egypt

A constitutional amendment in May 2005 changed the presidential election to a multicandidate popular vote rather than a popular validation of a candidate nominated by the People’s Assembly and on 7 September Mubarak was elected for another six-year term with 87 percent of the popular vote, followed by a distant but strong showing by Ayman Nour, leader of the opposition Ghad Party and a well-known rights activist.

Leader of the Opposition in the French National Assembly

In France, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly is the leader of the largest opposition group in the National Assembly.

Martyn See

Since 2004, Martyn is prominently known for making the 26-minute documentary film Singapore Rebel, about Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP).

Matthias Yao

In 1994, Yao was publicly challenged by the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), Dr Chee Soon Juan, to stand against him in a single member constituency at the next general election.

Mia Mottley

Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MP (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician who has been Leader of the Opposition in Barbados since 2013.

Miguel Gustavo Peirano

Professionally, he was linked to ARI economist Rubén Lo Vuolo, and was known to be in cordial terms with the leader of the opposition party ARI at the time, Elisa Carrió.

Mohammad Said bin Yusof

After the New Straits Times publicised the issue, Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition Lim Kit Siang from the Democratic Action Party (DAP) moved to refer the issue to the Dewan Rakyat House Rights and Privileges Committee.

Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Joseph Msika, the second Vice-president of Zimbabwe, Ms. Clare Short (British Secretary of State for International Development (1997–2003), Professor Arthur Mutambara (Deputy prime Minister of Zimbabwe (2009-present) and Leader of the Opposition Party Movement for Democratic Change and Archbishop Pius Ncube (Former Archbishop of Bulawayo Zimbabwe), a political refugee.

Neville Cenac

Cenac was the leader of the opposition Saint Lucia Labour Party in December 1982, during a constitutional dispute over the status of Governor-General Boswell Williams.

O le Ao o le Malo

The second was held on 19 July 2012, in which Tufuga Efi was nominated by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi and seconded by Palusalue Fa’apo II, the leader of the opposition.

Patrick Manning

A split in the ruling National Alliance for Reconstruction in 1988 left the PNM as the minority Opposition party, and in 1990 Basdeo Panday requested that he be appointed Leader of the Opposition.

Plymouth Brethren Christian Church

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Gerry Brownlee and Economic Development spokeswoman Katherine Rich expressed concerns about the Brethren's lack of political sophistication and loss of female voters for the New Zealand National Party at the 2005 general election.

Political divisions of Spain

While the constitution did not establish how many autonomous communities were to be created, on 31 July 1981, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, then the prime minister of Spain and Felipe González, leader of the opposition in Parliament, signed the "First Autonomic Pacts" (Primeros pactos autonómicos in Spanish), in which they agreed to the creation of 17 autonomous communities and two autonomous cities, with the same institutions of government, but different competences.

Pratapsingh Raoji Rane

His critics, like the then editor of the local Goa newspaper Herald or O Heraldo, Rajan Narayan criticised Rane for not doing enough as the leader of the Opposition.

Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram

A new bloc, with a cellar for recreational activities (Sanketam), was declared open by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Ajit Kumar Panja on January 9 1989, in the presence of Kerala Revenue Minister PS Sreenivasan and Leader of the Opposition K. Karunakaran.

Rye House Plot

With the "country party" in disarray, Lord Melville, Lord Leven, and Lord Shaftesbury, leader of the opposition to Charles's rule, fled to Holland where Shaftesbury soon died.

Spain general election debate, 2011

The Spain general election debate of 2011 was a debate between the leaders of the two main parties contesting the 2011 Spanish general election: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, leader of the incumbent Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, and Mariano Rajoy, leader of the opposition People's Party.

Stéphane Bédard

After the 2008, he was named the House leader of the opposition while being replaced by Pointe-aux-Trembles MNA Nicole Léger as Chief Whip of the PQ.

Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy

He was a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (1967–71) and Tamil Nadu Legislative Council (1976-84) where he was the Leader of the Opposition (1981–84).

United National Congress

Gerald Yetming, MP for St. Joseph joined the Opposition back benches in protest of Basdeo Panday's failure to relinquish the position of Leader of the Opposition.

University of the Southern Caribbean

Malcolm Guishard – 1975 – Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Deputy Premier Nevis.

WorkChoices

At the MCG the entertainment included Jimmy Barnes and the crowd was addressed by such speakers as the leader of the opposition Kim Beazley.

Ziauddin Sardar

During the 1990s, he lived in Kuala Lumpur, where he was an advisor to Anwar Ibrahim, the former Deputy Prime Minister and now the Leader of the Opposition.