shadow government
Americannoun
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shadow governments
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a group of people thought to be the real power secretly controlling the official government of a nation, leadership of a corporation, or the like.
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Politics. the leaders in an opposition party, each of whom is assigned to track the activities of a specific member of the government so as to counter them in the legislature and, potentially, assume their roles should the governing party lose in an election.
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Publicly they say they do, alongside the shadow government which was deposed by the coup, and the hundreds of volunteer peoples' defence forces which have sprung up to support it.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Christian Malanga, who considered himself president of a shadow government in exile, livestreamed his attack in Kinshasa on May 19.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
The Phoenix program was designed to uncover and dismantle the National Liberation Front’s shadow government across South Vietnam.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
The members had also formed a sort of shadow government that they intended to install after the coup.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Devoid of these two pillars of political might - Thaci may find himself unemployed, a former self-declared Prime Minister of a shadow government in Albanian exile.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
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