While parts of Feltham, in Hounslow, would be most affected by a southern runway, the major opposition is likely to come from Twickenham and Richmond, where wealthy homeowners would be under the flight path.
Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who faced virtually no opposition in a presidential election last Sunday that was boycotted by the major opposition parties, was effectively declared the winner today, the Provisional Electoral Council announced.
And major institutional opposition is not emerging so far.
From 1977 until 1982 Spain was governed by the Union of the Democratic Centre (Unión de Centro Democrático; UCD), and the major opposition party was the Spanish Socialist Workers Partyy (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE).
Virtually every major political figure in opposition was subjected to harassment; in one particularly egregious example, Tamara Vinnikava, head of the National Bank of Belarus, was arrested in January and held in solitary detention, isolated and ill, without having been brought to trial.
Furthermore, the Muslim Brotherhood's own media within Egypt have been banned, so this major opposition voice is restricted to online television and news portals hosted abroad.
What the country needs is to approve the budget, and to continue in its efforts [to cut its deficit]." But it was not long until the major opposition parties were calling for an immediate election.
The size of the Democratic opposition was a major embarrassment for Richard A. Gephardt, the party's leader in the House, who helped write the resolution with the White House and made a forceful floor speech in its favor.
There are thousands of political prisoners in Syrian jails, and major opposition groups are banned.
This is certainly helped by the fact that both the major opposition parties are drifting rudderless through their respectively tepid leadership contests.
