http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/5010fb72e0b5dc09 https://verfassungsblog.de/two-defeats-one-winner/ Two Defeats, One Winner - United Opposition as the Last Guardrail Jain, Anmol eng 2026-04-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarian Populism BJP Comparative Constitutionalism Fidesz Opposition Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In the last week, across two continents, two authoritarian governments faced significant blows, not by courts, not by international pressure, not by the slow grind of institutional resistance, but by oppositions that chose, against their fractious instincts, to act unitedly. Together, the two episodes highlight how oppositional party politics play important constitutional and democratic functions, and must find crucial space in the study of comparative constitutional law.