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	ipedia.com: Rightist Opposition Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is the only opposition group that successfully won over seven percent of the votes on March 28, 2004, whi...
		It is the only opposition group that successfully won over seven percent of the votes on March 28, 2004, which was the necessary threshold to secure seats in Parliament.
		The Rightist Opposition is jointly led by David Gamkrelidze of New Rights and Gogi Topadze of the Industrialists.
	www.ipedia.com /rightist_opposition.html (328 words)

	Rightist Opposition -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Rightist Opposition (Georgian: მემარჯვენე ოპოზიცია, Memaryvene Opozicya) is an alliance of (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia's New Rights and Industrialists Parties.
		However, neither of these claims were substantiated by observers from the (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Union in their subsequent report on the elections.
		The Rightist Opposition is jointly led by (Click link for more info and facts about David Gamkrelidze) David Gamkrelidze of New Rights and Gogi Topadze of the Industrialists.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/rightist_opposition.htm (283 words)

	1939: Chile - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		A Conservative plot against the Government was uncovered in July, and arrests were made of many former police and army officers and civilians, who were disgruntled at the sweeping dismissal of officials at the outset of the new régime.
		Rightist strength in both houses of the Legislature, where the conservative parties have a majority, is a source of worry to the President and impedes the progress of the reform program of the Popular Front Government.
		The allotment of over 100,000,000 pesos for new schools, waterworks and housing in the area devastated by the earthquake and other large sums invested in roads were indicated in the annual report of the Ministry of Hacienda.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501117/1939_Chile.html (1632 words)

	RIGHTIST LEXICON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rightist meaning: Was a Republican when the party began 140 years ago, so he can be forgiven for freeing the slaves and suppressing the right of individual states to pass rightist laws without interference from Washington.
		Rightist meaning: When used by rightists it means to oppress the people by stripping them of their basic liberties and rights, while conning them into thinking dictatorial rule is good for them.
		Rightist meaning: Facilitates the largest vote-buying scheme in history, whereby all taxpayers and their children and their children's children, regardless of political persuasion, pay for an increased federal deficit in order to fund checks from the Bush administration to taxpayers.
	dissectright.port5.com /rightist_lexicon.html (7530 words)

	Morales Supporters Clash with Opponents in Bolivia
		The rightist opposition says Morales' MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) party, which holds a majority in the assembly, wants to impose a voting system that favors it.
		Lawmakers from the main opposition party Podemos said on Tuesday they were also joining the hunger strike being staged by Morales' opponents in various parts of the country.
		Opposition groups say those rules -- which were approved by simple majority last month -- leave Morales' opponents without much say in the future legal framework, and they are campaigning for a two-thirds voting system for all articles.
	www.ocnus.net /cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=106&num=26966&printer=1 (382 words)

	Washington utilizes rightist terror to effect "regime change" in Haiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Bush administration is utilizing an armed rebellion by fascistic thugs in the north and center of Haiti to effect a longstanding goal of regime change in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
		Meanwhile, in the south, the so-called nonviolent opposition is led by a collection of politicians representing Haiti’s ruling elite, including former supporters of the Duvalier dynastic dictatorship and the military regime of Gen. Raoul Cédras, as well as others who had aligned themselves previously with Aristide.
		Determined only to defend their wealth and privileges in a country where 70 percent of the people are unemployed and half are malnourished, they have tried to dress themselves up as “democratic” campaigners by seizing on manipulation of the results of the last legislative elections.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/feb2004/hait-f25.shtml (1371 words)

	The Beginning of the End \| stoush.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Even after the defeat of the opposition groups and with the Politburo largely comprised of Stalin supporters, Stalin did not wield the full plenitude of power that is ascribed to him in the post-World War II period.
		Stalin himself relied, until the defeat of the left and right oppositions, in the Politburo on the votes of the majority group (whoever they happened to be), and thus articulated his authority through his position as the spokesperson of the Politburo.
		The early 1930s saw a renewed opposition to Stalin, different in form from that of the 1920s as it was an expression of dissatisfaction with Stalin from within the bureaucracy itself.
	stoush.net /alex-white/365/the-beginning-of-the-end (4678 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		In this sense, the clearing of the 7% threshold by the Rightist Opposition indicates that they managed to bring their voters to the polling stations.
		Along with the Rightist Opposition, one of the single-member constituency MPs, Niko Lekishvili, has announced an intention to create a faction consisting of some 30 of his colleagues.
		The Rightist Opposition and Lekishvili’s faction are likely to stir a debate on taxation and revenue collection reforms which are to be reviewed already in May. Industrialists (now members of the Rightist Opposition) proposed their own tax code last year, which was adopted in the first hearing.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=2259 (1086 words)

	[ALBSA-Info] Various news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Albanian opposition politicians and their counterparts from the governing coalition have clashed over the composition of the Central Election Commission (KQZ), "Shekulli" reported on 10 January.
		Then, the governing coalition and the opposition agreed to apply that key for equal representation to all other election commissions down to the level of the polling stations.
		Sali [Berisha]." He also noted that the governing coalition has agreed to allow the opposition to nominate one of the two KQZ members to be elected by parliament, and that the president will make his choice independently of political party interests.
	www.alb-net.com /pipermail/albsa-info/2000-January/000035.html (638 words)

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		Surprisingly, this statement was released by the Rightist Opposition of Georgia (comprising the liberal reform Industrialists and New Rights parties) in the aftermath of the March 28, 2004 elections.
		In those elections, apart from the pro-government National Movement, only the Rightist Opposition and the political movement of Aslan Abashidze, the leader of Ajaria, cleared the threshold for party-list representation in the new Georgian parliament.
		Indeed, the Georgian opposition parties had been deeply concerned by apparent pre-election comments made by President Mikheil Saakashvili that there was no need for an opposition in parliament that might "stab him in the back" in his efforts to promote reforms.
	inthenationalinterest.com /Articles/Vol3Issue13/Vol3Issue13Realist.html (541 words)

	David Gamkrelidze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Gamkrelidze (born April 2, 1965) is the Chairman of Georgia’s Rightist Opposition, the only opposition political party to surpass the seven percent barrier necessary to enter Parliament during the March 28, 2004, elections.
		The New Rights overwhelmingly won the local government elections in June 2002, taking over 40 percent of the total countrywide vote, twice that of its closest rival.
		In March 2004, after two years of difficult negotiations, Gamkrelidze succeeded in reaching a deal with the Industrialists Party, another pro-business group, to form a united center-right political alliance called the Rightist Opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Gamkrelidze (368 words)

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		Surprisingly, this statement was released by the Rightist Opposition of Georgia (comprising the liberal reform Industrialists and New Rights parties) in the aftermath of the March 28, 2004 elections.
		In those elections, apart from the pro-government National Movement, only the Rightist Opposition and the political movement of Aslan Abashidze, the leader of Ajaria, cleared the threshold for party-list representation in the new Georgian parliament.
		Indeed, the Georgian opposition parties had been deeply concerned by apparent pre-election comments made by President Mikheil Saakashvili that there was no need for an opposition in parliament that might "stab him in the back" in his efforts to promote reforms.
	www.inthenationalinterest.com /Articles/Vol3Issue13/Vol3Issue13Realist.html (541 words)

	Chile - Salvador Allende's Leftist Regime, 1970-73 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The opposition expected the Allende coalition to suffer the typical losses of Chilean governments in midterm elections, especially with the economy in a tailspin.
		The opposition began openly knocking on the doors of the barracks in hopes that the military would provide a solution.
		In August 1973, the rightist and centrist representatives in the Chamber of Deputies undermined the president's legitimacy by accusing him of systematically violating the constitution and by urging the armed forces to intervene.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2424.html (1701 words)

	Rustavi 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rightist Opposition failed to gain the support of the MPs for launching the procedure for sacking Education Minister Aleksandre Lomaia.
		Davit Gamqrelidze demanded the discussion of the Education Minister's dismissal at the plenary session of parliament today claiming he was indifferent toward the problems of the Medical College Students, who went on hunger strike six days ago.
		After failing to convince the MPs to discuss the Minister's resignation, the Rightist Opposition, the members of the Conservative and Labor parties and an independent MP Gocha Jojua walked out of the session hall in protest.
	www.rustavi2.com.ge /view.php?id=10507 (93 words)

	Excite - News
		PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government survived a vote of no confidence in parliament on Friday as expected, with the rightist opposition failing to topple Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla less than halfway through his four-year term.
		The opposition called the vote saying the reforms did not go far enough in slashing the deficit.
		One opposition MP was absent due to illness.
	news.excite.com /world/article/id/356863\|world\|09-26-2003::05:12\|reuters.html (369 words)

	Hakamada's online victory - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Opposition presidential candidates are trying hard to receive public attention.
		None of the opposition candidates hopes to win the elections, and they honestly confessed the voters about this at some point of their run.
		Hakamada, her running for elections in 2004 does not mean that she could be the rightist opposition leader for the election campaign in 2008.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=12224 (527 words)

	Rose_Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main democratic opposition parties united to demand the ouster of Shevardnadze and the rerun of the elections.
		The opposition protest reached its peak on November 22, the day of an opening session of a new parliament, which was considered illegitimate.
		The same day, opposition supporters led by Saakashvili with roses in their hands (hence the name Rose Revolution) seized the parliament building interrupting a speech of President Eduard Shevardnadze and forcing him to escape with his bodyguards.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Rose_Revolution (849 words)

	RIGHT-LEFT CONFUSION IN POLITICS
		So what Leftists and Rightists of the contemporary Anglo-Celtic world generally advocate, is not, I submit, particularly problematic: Leftists believe (in general) in big government as the way to maximize human welfare and Rightists believe (in general) in small government as the way to maximize human welfare.
		That it is not about opposition to change can perhaps be seen from a more detailed consideration of what she did while in office.
		To continue automatically to equate opposition to change with one side of politics only would be sheer dogmatism and quite blind to the events of the real world about us.
	fire.prohosting.com /jonjayra/riterong.html (3260 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Belka for President
		Belka will have to deal with an opposition whose shaky emotions and loss of common sense have reached a point where even the only moderate, liberal and pro-European party-the Civic Platform (PO)-oversteps the limits of decency in flaunting cheap populism.
		To gain the votes of the divided social democrats, the prime minister agreed to subject himself to another vote in just three months' time, and the limits of his work are defined by the approaching elections anyway.
		After all, it is in as much danger from the possible success of Belka's mission as it is from his failure due to the excessive sharpness of the opposition's attacks.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/6003 (1135 words)

	Georgia Today on the Web
		In the light of the upcoming local elections, opposition political parties are becoming more active and thinking about different strategies they can apply for success in the polls.
		The cornerstone is that the majority of the opposition agrees that in the present circumstances it will be extremely difficult to participate in the elections without forming a coalition.
		I think this is necessary; however, the issue of unification with other opposition forces is not on our agenda at present and, frankly speaking, this would be impossible with many political parties,” Saganelidze explains.
	www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=921 (841 words)

	Hanna Stewart-Gambino: Redefining the Changes and Politics in Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The rightist parties simply disbanded in favor of the new regime, and the combination of sophisticated repression and the economic boom of the late 1970s enabled the state effectively to shut down the center and left and fragment the opposition.
		Because of the success of the first protests, the major opposition parties and alliances fell prey to an "election mentality "-their immediate goal became the demonstration of party strength rather than subordination of party interests to the goal of unifying a cohesive opposition movement.
		In contrast, the rightist opposition can be divided on issues such as the degree of civilian control over the military, but these opposition parties have demonstrated a remarkable unity on their long-term economic interests.
	www.dominicans.org /~ecleary/conflict/conflict02.htm (9861 words)

	IslamicAwakening.Com :
		The rightist opposition campaign led by the People's Party and pro-church parties resulted in imposing more restrictions on implementing the law.
		The Spanish rightist parties believe the government decision to teach Islam is doomed to failure due to the poor number of the Islamic subject teachers, even in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla which have only 20 teachers.
		The anti-Muslim campaigns in the European country reflected differences between the rightist parties and the Catholic church on one hand, and the leftist parties led by the ruling Socialist party on the other, according to observers.
	www.as-sahwah.com /print.php?newsID=3568 (1070 words)

	Rustavi 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rightist Opposition Alleges President in Abusing TSU Autonomy
		Leader of the Rightist Opposition Pikria Chikhradze alleged the president and the executive government in violating autonomy of the Tbilisi state university.
		Vice-Speaker of the parliament Mikheil Machavariani supported the president's positions saying the opposition could appeal to the government with these questions in a written form.
	www.rustavi2.com.ge /view.php?id=8813 (225 words)

	Czech rightist opposition leads in polls -- World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main Czech opposition party, the Civic Democrats, holds a commanding lead in the latest opinion poll, Czech Television reported Friday.
		The poll by the Factum Invenio agency indicates the Civic Democrats would take 33.5 percent of the vote and the Communist Party was second with 24.9 percent.
		The poll was conducted last month among 997 people and has a 3 percent margin of error.
	www.wpherald.com /print.php?StoryID=20050311-112011-2909r (206 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia
		This accusation of the Rightist Opposition is groundless,” Giga Bokeria of the National Movement – Democrats said at a news briefing on April 1.
		According to the Central Election Commission’s results announced on March 31 the Rightist Opposition cleared 7% threshold and received 7,62% of votes in March 28 elections.
		The ruling party claims that the representatives of the Rightist Opposition were suspected in ballot staffing at those precincts which were annulled after the election observer organizations reported numerous violations.
	www.civil.ge /eng/article_elections.php?id=6602 (305 words)

	Georgia Legislative Election, 2004 Information - Articles Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Of the 20 parties contesting the elections, only the NMD and the Rightist Opposition party polled more than 7 percent of the vote, the theshold necessary to gain representation.
		The new Georgian Parliament will also include 85 members elected from single-member constituencies, who were elected in the November 2003 elections and have not been required to face re-election.
		The Rightist Opposition is a center-right pro-business alliance led by David Gamkrelidze.
	articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Georgia_legislative_election,_2004 (537 words)

	The Santiago Times - English Language Newspaper in Santiago, Chile - News in Chile and Latin America
		Joaquín Lavín, the former mayor of Santiago and erstwhile leader of Chile’s rightist opposition alliance placed third with 23 of the vote, followed by Tomás Hirsch of the leftist “Juntos Podemos Más” coalition with 5 percent.
		The two rightist candidates garnered 49 percent of the vote, while the Concertación coalition, together with the leftist Juntos Podemos Más coalition received 51 percent of the vote.
		Rightist Senator Evelyn Matthei was almost defeated, too, but the 32 percent of the vote her ticket received was just sufficient to prevent “doubling” by the Concertación ticket, which received 60 percent of the vote.
	www.tcgnews.com /santiagotimes/index.php?nav=story&story_id=10452&topic_id=1 (1149 words)

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