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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Opposition Party

Styliani (Stella) Christoforidou

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
July 2024

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 07 December 2024

Subject(s):
Right to form political parties — Parliamentary systems — Representative democracy — Presidential systems

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 An opposition party is a party that does not participate in the formation of the Government (political parties or fractions in legislative bodies). 2 In representative democratic systems, since the principle of majority applies, the opposition party is a minority party. In a two-party system, the opposition party is the one party between the two that obtained the fewest votes (see, for example, on the United Kingdom political system, Helms (2004) 26–29). In political systems where more than two parties operate, the opposition party could be either a relative...
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