With elections due next year, Argentina's opposition Alliance is far ahead in the polls.
The opposition alliance, which links Frepaso with the ancient, soft-left Radical party, called a debate in Congress.
Ethiopia has given support to the opposition Alliance of Eritrean National Forces (AENF), now based in Ethiopia.
Fernando de la Rua, the presidential candidate of the centre-left opposition Alliance has echoed Mr Duhalde in backing convertibility.
The consolation for Mr Zedillo is that the opposition alliance too is unstable.
But the three-party opposition alliance - which mounted its strongest-ever challenge to the coalition - has called for a recount.
The Liberal Democrats now count 261 members in the 500-seat lower house -- against the 97 of the Democratic League, the largest opposition alliance.
The outgoing coalition failed to back the government in the confidence vote after several Liberal Democrat members, including its vice president, resigned and joined the opposition alliance.
Not even the two-party opposition Alliance, critical as it is of unemployment, still around 13%, dares to suggest printing money (the currency-board system forbids it) as a cure.
In October, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, its leader, walked out of his opposition alliance with the Democratic Party after a row over the sacking of the mayor of Cape Town.
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His opposition alliance won the popular vote, securing 50% of the ballot by pledging to remove race-based quotas for the majority but poorer ethnic-Malay community in this mostly Muslim country of 28 million.
The exclusion of a breakaway Hutu opposition alliance called the National Council for the Defence of Democracy and the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) has been considered a reason for the failure of talks so far.
There seems little doubt, according to the opinion polls, that when Argentines vote this Sunday they will choose as their next president Fernando de la Rua, the grey and cautious mayor of Buenos Aires and leader of the opposition Alliance.
Tensions were stoked further as Mr. Anwar, the opposition leader, called for a mass rally at a sports stadium in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday evening, where he says he will provide evidence of electoral violations he says cost his opposition alliance the election.
The police minister made the revelations in written answers to a parliamentary question from the opposition Democratic Alliance.
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The main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party said it shared the values of non-racialism and constitutionalism with Agang.
However, the opposition Democratic Alliance has called for the cancellation of power contracts with other Southern African Development Community states.
Opposition Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said President Mbeki had not managed to calm the nerves of the South African nation.
The opposition Democratic Alliance party (DA) called for the officers involved to be suspended and for a thorough investigation to be carried out.
Tony Leon, the former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, claims that policing has been devastated by cronyism and that the entire criminal-justice system is dysfunctional.
But the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party described the bill as "unconstitutional" and urged President Jacob Zuma to refer it back to parliament for further amendments.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
The opposition Democratic Alliance could wrest the province from the ANC at the election if it manages to join forces with a flurry of smaller opposition parties, as it did to win control of the city of Cape Town.
Only European opposition blocked alliance membership.
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Yet the opposition's alliance is one of convenience and fraught with difficulties.
But Congress of the People, a breakaway faction of the ANC, and opposition party Democratic Alliance hoped to pull enough support to bring the ANC below two-thirds.
Others have claimed that Mr Chretien was keen to ensure that former preacher Stockwell Day, the leader of the newly-formed opposition party Canadian Alliance, would not have time to develop a national following.
Muriel said that in the face of Northern Alliance opposition to British troops and what is being seen as limited U.S. support for UK ground forces, Britain appeared to be back-tracking on sending its forces.
So, too, is Stockwell Day, the new leader of the federal opposition, the Canadian Alliance Party.
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