Sentence examples for socialist administrations from inspiring English sources

But the popularity of the party, which once boasted ministers in several Socialist administrations, has waned in recent years.

Zapatero established a reputation as a capable, hardworking deputy, but he held no public office in the socialist administrations that governed Spain between 1982 and 1996.

Royal has held four ministerial jobs, including environment, in previous Socialist administrations under François Mitterrand (who passed over her then partner Hollande).

Mr Spinetta, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, which trains the French elite, was a transport expert in successive Socialist administrations, and also chairman in the early 1990s of state-owned Air Inter.

Rather than freeing up sales, however, the bill is intended to stop them, and specifically to end hidden speculative deals to circumvent the moratorium, which Mr. Orban and senior members of his cabinet say have been done by foreigners, big corporations and members of former socialist administrations.

But he also noted that Spain did little to confront its darker past even under Socialist administrations, and that it resisted calls by human rights groups and Mr. Gárzon to set up an independent truth commission to investigate crimes committed under Franco.

Under a Socialist administration he hardly qualified as banknote material.

He has also suggested that another Socialist administration would, instead, shelve promised reforms.

Attempting to undermine the socialist administration of Felipe González, the pro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Popular Coalition boycotted the 1986 referendum on membership.

He served as prime minister between 2009 and 2010, as a non-party technocrat leading a Socialist administration.

Fidesz came to power promising a break from the sleazy insider deals that marked the previous Socialist administration.