Yet the small opposition parties like Parnas fared even worse.
Discusses its passage, the small opposition to it, & its Constitutional implications.
The remaining three races were won by independents and a candidate from a small opposition party.
The small opposition parties that it had legalised are largely discredited and have only small local bases.
A small opposition party recently asked to rejoin the government, having defected from it a decade ago.
Where voting allegiances have switched, for the most part it will have been between one small opposition party and another.
He led the small opposition Iran Nation Party, and was an outspoken critic of the government's human-rights record.
It serves to suggest that the union is democratic while having little actual effect much as small opposition parties served to legitimise the PRI's authoritarian rule.
Some small opposition parties, such as the Social Democrats and the Communists, implacably oppose any expansion of the armed forces' role.
Unions and small opposition parties, which talk of toppling what they call the "bourgeois system," have been merciless in resisting every reform.
