The nominal opposition party, Islah, a conservative mishmash of Islamists and tribesmen, saw which way the wind was blowing and nominated Mr Saleh before his own party did.
Last week, Yahoo announced it would extend the deadline for investors, including Microsoft, to nominate an opposition slate of directors in an effort to avoid a proxy fight with Microsoft while it explored its options.
When Erskine H. Childers died in 1974, Ó Dálaigh was nominated without opposition as president of Ireland.
The students were walking to the student union building to nominate pro-opposition candidates for their campus elections, said Amnesty International.
The popular incumbent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had been re-nominated without opposition, and the same was supposed to happen with Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, even though Eisenhower had tried, ineffectually, to drop him from the ticket.
The Central Election Commission accepted only four candidates, but several political parties banded together to nominate a single opposition candidate, trade unionist Uladzimir Hancharyk.
She will compete against Tsai Ing-wen, 58, the candidate nominated by the opposition Democratic Progressive party (DPP) in April.
Katumbi, though nominated by seven opposition parties to be their presidential candidate, faces an uphill battle to unify a historically fractured opposition.
TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 12 — Georgia's opposition nominated the owner of a winemaking company on Monday to face President Mikheil Saakashvili in early presidential elections, scheduled for Jan . 5
In July the European council (the heads of government) nominated Barroso but opposition from socialist and liberal MEPs prevented the parliament from giving its approval.
