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The UUP have consistently fulfilled both criteria, however only elected to join the Opposition in the fifth term. The SDLP met both criteria after the 2016 and 2017 elections, and met the second criteria after the 2022 election, choosing to join the opposition for the fifth and seventh terms.
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The legal basis for the Assembly Opposition was established by the Assembly and Executive Reform (Assembly Opposition) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016. Under section 2, a party may join the official Opposition if it both has no minister in government, and it meets one or both of two criteria:
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The Assembly Opposition Act recognises the offices of Leader of the Largest Non-Executive Party and Leader of the Second-Largest Non-Executive Party, although these positions may be given alternative names (section 5). Assembly Standing Orders clarifies these roles will be titled the
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was formed in which unionist, nationalist and cross-community parties shared power for the first time. However, that government only lasted from January to May 1974, and from then until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 Northern Ireland was
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and Sinn Féin would currently be excluded from entering opposition if they wished to, because as the largest unionist and largest nationalist party they must participate in the Executive.
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Following the Assembly Opposition Act, the standing orders which regulate how the Assembly conducts its business were amended on 14 March 2016 to provide the Assembly Opposition with:
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empowers opposition parties to scrutinise the work of government, giving them financial assistance, enhanced speaking rights in the chamber and the right to chair certain
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and amended the Financial Assistance for Political Parties Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 to give Assembly Opposition parties additional funding (section 11).
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from 1921 to 1925, and thereafter the Nationalist Party). However, during this time members of the Nationalist opposition often practised a policy of
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where they would run for seats in the parliament but refuse to take them if elected, in order not to give legitimacy to British rule or the
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It was not until February 1965 that the Nationalist Party agreed to accept recognition as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.
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fulfilled the second criteria in the 2017 election and both criteria after the 2022 election but have not elected to join the Opposition.
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It holds 8% or more of the total number of seats in the Assembly. This amounted to nine out of 108 seats in the Assembly's
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were the only Nationalist MPs to take their seats until Byrne's death in 1942 and Campbell's resignation in 1945.
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enhanced speaking rights "including a minimum of 10 days per year set aside for Opposition business" (section 8);
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While the Assembly and Executive had been in operation since 1998 and 1999, respectively (following the
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the right to ask the first Topical Question (Standing Order 20A, following section 6 of the Act);
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can be taken by larger political parties who do not participate in Northern Ireland's
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The majority-rule Parliament was abolished and replaced in 1973 by a unicameral
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until they withdrew from the official Opposition in October 1968 following the
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The Assembly Opposition Act also required standing orders to grant:
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the largest and therefore the governing party was consistently the
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Northern Ireland was governed from 1921 to 1972 by a bicameral
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It is entitled to one or more ministerial roles following the
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the right to chair the Public Accounts Committee (section 9);
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a period for Opposition Business (Standing Order 10).
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