Sentence examples for free opposition from inspiring English sources
Why were the two main reformist parties banned in a state that has free opposition?
But his officials have always been able to counter accusations that he is an autocrat by pointing to a pugnacious and largely free opposition media.
The result was the historic Round Table talks with Solidarity (in which he did not take part personally), which ended with a power-sharing deal: free elections to 161 of the 400-seat Seym (Parliament), the creation of a freely-elected Senate, free opposition media and the re-legalisation of Solidarity.
Mr Maduro will be greeted in Panama by a demand from 22 ex-presidents of the centre and right that he free opposition prisoners.This does not mean a return to the 1990s and the monolith of the "Washington consensus" on market economics.
The root of the problem -- then and now -- is that democracy means free media, honest elections, separation of powers, independent judiciary and a free opposition able to disagree with the majority in power.
Through the first two years of Obama's Presidency this meant cost-free opposition to any Obama proposal.
A6 Haiti Frees Opposition Figure Officials released former Senator Paul Denis without explanation, local radio reported, three days after he became one of many opposition politicians to be arrested since Sunday's elections.
Parliament also freed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who later addressed thousands of people in Independence Square - the focal point of much of the protest.
It is not free when opposition party supporters are killed and polling stations in opposition strongholds eliminated in presidential elections.
The free press, opposition politicians, lawyers and even religious leaders were silenced.
