His words are a none too cryptic reference to Socialist charges that the former conservative government deliberately lied in the immediate aftermath of the terrible Madrid train bombings in March 2004 (which came just before the last general elections), when they insisted the bombings appeared to be the work of the Basque separatist terror group ETA, rather than of Islamic fanatics.
Jean-Marc Ayrault, representing the opposition Socialists, charged that the United States "intimidates the international community" and said France should veto any Security Council resolution authorizing force.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson insisted American troops were needed to make the world "safe for democracy," while pacifists and Socialists charged the doughboys were only protecting the profits of munitions makers and British imperialists.
I am vaguely suspicious that she is slightly overstating her disappointment in him, in order to avoid the question of what, exactly, is wrong with the Labour party now that there's a socialist in charge.
If Maduro were to be voted out in 2017, though, his vice-president would finish the presidential term, leaving the socialists in charge.
In a report to the French National Assembly last week, two Socialist legislators charged that Switzerland was lax in enforcing its laws against laundering money.
True, they have lost control in Catalonia, but the Socialists in charge there now are strongly regional in their outlook, and rule Catalonia in coalition with a nationalist group whose parliamentary strength increased from one to eight in the March election.So Mr Zapatero is in hock to the Catalan Socialists, who are in turn in hock to a bunch of fiery left-wing nationalists.
The last expulsion in Albany occurred in 1920 when Assembly leaders engineered the rejection of five newly elected socialists on charges they were not sufficiently pro-American.
They are Sandor Laborc, a former head of the domestic security service, Lajos Galambos, his predecessor, and Gyorgy Szilvassy, a former Socialist minister in charge of the secret services.
