nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5010fb72e0b5dc09 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260420s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5010fb72e0b5dc09 doi eng 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 Two Defeats, One Winner - United Opposition as the Last Guardrail Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2026-04-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism BJP Comparative Constitutionalism Fidesz Opposition Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/two-defeats-one-winner/ raw object