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It is also important to respect the role of the opposition in a democratic parliament. Opposition parties clearly do not have the same possibilities to use the competent services of the non-political public branch of government as the parties in power, including among the local and regional administrations. Opposition can be subject to discrimination in terms, inter alia, of premises’ facilities, staff and communication sources. However, it is possible to introduce some balancing structures within the constitutional system. The opposition parties in parliament may be given the equivalent resources through participation in committees and access to investigative resources that parliament makes available for individual members of parliament or political parties represented in parliament. The internal rules of parliaments should provide for such guarantees as well as for an equal access to facilities proper to parliaments as well as to local and regional administrations.