Prof, the LoP position should be dispensed with. In South Africa, there is no LOP, and each party continues to run its own policies. But LoP must be elected by the party MPs and not the whole parliament
In 1980s after the 1980 general election, the late DP president general Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was the leader of opposition in the parliament between 1980 to 1985. Before the military coup of 1985. That time presidential election was not there.