The leftwing opposition, comprising social democrats and communists, also holds 100 seats.
The three-party opposition comprised Mr Anwar's multi-racial party, a secular Chinese-majority party and a conservative party of Muslim Malays.
Indeed, one factor that has kept the United States and its allies from openly embracing the protesters in the streets is the incoherence of an opposition comprising upward of 100 distinct groups.
The process of writing a new constitution became the focus of bitter contention between the Islamists and a loose opposition comprising liberal, secular, and Christian factions.
The opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) comprised nearly all of the remaining members.
When Aung San Suu Kyi and her fellow-electees take their seats in the two-chamber Parliament in the remote capital of Naypyitaw, the opposition party will comprise barely seven per cent of the six-hundred-and-sixty-four-seat assembly.
His reaction – typical among regime supporters, say activists – is to yell: "Is this the freedom you want!?", alluding to the narrative that the Syrian opposition is comprised solely of terrorists.
Or the myriad individual issues that currently comprise the opposition to free trade could force the soldering together of an omnibus proposal on the floor of Congress.
The opposition must be influential!
"The opposition to the trade agreement comprises unions, environmental, consumer groups – in other words, the entire Democratic base," says Wallach.
