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CROMBEZ: Declining fortunes of the left
Continent’s liberal movement bereft of ideas and leaders
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…Throughout Europe, the left is in dire straits, being trounced in national elections and thrown out of office. Just five of the European Union’s 27 member states have governments led by the left, and the left appears set to lose power in Spain, the only large member state that has such a government.
In 2007, the French Socialists lost their third straight presidential election. In 2009, the German Social Democrats had their worst election defeat since the establishment of the federal republic. Last year, the British Labor Party suffered its largest loss in nearly 80 years. In Italy, the left is too divided and leaderless to put even an embattled and scandal-ridden Silvio Berlusconi in danger. The Polish Socialists failed to garner more than 13 percent of the vote in the most recent parliamentary and presidential elections, and opinion polls for this fall's parliamentary elections predict they will gain little more.
- Bullshit, the European right is way left of the american spectrum. Such a stupid article.zarkonite
- So the NYTimes is a bias paper, but the Wash Times isn't? Got it.TheBlueOne
- Get a job.TheBlueOne