Sentence examples for opposition platform from inspiring English sources

He sees the possibility of a single opposition platform for municipal elections in October.

Promising reforms to tackle deep economic imbalances, Mr Macri, the Mayor of Buenos Aires, accused Daniel Scioli, the candidate of the ruling Front for Victory party, of distorting the opposition platform for change and of being part of a government that has misled voters about the real state of the economy.

Until now, Seif had been afforded, perhaps due to his age and class, a measure of immunity from the violence of the security forces, but his membership in the Syrian National Council, a newly formed opposition platform, may have changed that.

The cacerolazo, as it is commonly known here, has become Venezuela's opposition platform of choice to voice their dissent against the results of Sunday's election.

He dismissed the opposition platforms as "economic fantasyland… where money grows on trees, debts don't have to be paid back and taxes are good for the economy".On the only occasions on which Conservative leaders have won majorities in the past half century, in the 1950s and 1980s, they have done so by forging a coalition of Quebeckers, westerners and suburban Ontarians.

"We cannot win as a dime-store copy of the opposition's platform," he said.

The opposition Civic Platform, which narrowly lost the 2005 election, said Sunday that it was ready for the campaign.

The opposition Civic Platform party ran in parliamentary elections this fall in part on the promise to bring troops home.

Donald Tusk, the leader of the main opposition Civic Platform, says the government is trying to "seize absolute power".That does not seem to bother Poland's new bosses.

"It is seen as a gift to America without reciprocity," says Radek Sikorski, a former Polish defence minister who is now a candidate for the opposition Civic Platform, the front-runner in the election on October 21st.

Victory in a majority of the five contests, especially the race for mayor in the capital, Taipei, would give the opposition a platform from which to wage a pitched battle against Mr. Ma in the 2012 presidential campaign.