Plaid Cymru have made the lack of a UK government response to the first Silk report the focus of their opposition to the Queen's Speech and say they will push their amendment to a vote tonight in a device designed to highlight Labour divisions over the assembly's powers.

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They will continue to push their policies in the face of that opposition no matter what.

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At least during the new government's first three months, when it will push through its main economic measures, the opposition will be in no shape to resist, argues Jose Luis Machinea, Mr de la Rua's likely economy minister, who ran the central bank under Mr Alfonsin .

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Mr Koizumi claims to be pushing through many modernisations to government and the economy, but in the absence of an opposition to prod it along the push has slowed.

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In Argentina, the push to legalize same-sex marriage met with fierce opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, with Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- then the archbishop of Buenos Aires and now the pope -- engaging in a notorious war of words with the government over the issue.

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The attempts to push the matter through parliament almost ended up with the opposition dragging his government in front of the constitutional court.

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