Sentence examples for opposition access from inspiring English sources
Election experts say it is equally important to determine whether candidates can conduct their campaigns without pressure, whether the government denies the opposition access to the news media, particularly state television, and whether votes are tabulated fairly.
American officials said they had urged Zimbabwe's government to pave the way for fair elections by curbing violence and intimidation and by allowing the opposition access to the media and to voter rolls.
Most western aid donors shunned Togo but, with French support, he stayed in power.Before the latest election, Mr Eyadéma's supporters, mostly Kabaye people from central Togo who back the army, the police and the bureaucracy, fiddled the electoral lists, denied the opposition access to the state-run media and intimidated opposition politicians.
In Moscow, three prominent political figures, including former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and the Yabloko Party's leader, Grigory Yavlinsky, signed an appeal to Mr. Lukashenko this week to liberalize the election process by allowing opposition access to state-controlled news media and to election oversight.
Belarus has been heavily criticised by rights bodies for suppressing free speech, muzzling the press and denying the opposition access to state media.
As Western governments applied economic sanctions to express their dissatisfaction with the government repression of the opposition, access to imported luxury goods became even more restricted.
More specifically, the opposition needs access to satellite-fed Internet connections across the country.
He is close to Ed Miliband, the current leader of the opposition, enjoying access that he never had during the Blair years.
Even Iraq's Kurds have established a relationship of coexistence with the regime, denying Iraqi opposition leaders access to Kurdish territory.
They included charges that the government used the police and army to help it campaign; that the opposition's access to the media was limited; and that radio stations were instructed by the information ministry not to carry certain stories.
The Council of Europe this week noted with dismay, for example, the failure to introduce promised electoral reform measures, or to allow the opposition unrestricted access to CCTV footage of polling stations.It is hard to overstate Georgia's importance for the West.
