Sentence examples for socialist legislators from inspiring English sources

But business leaders warn that the president is allowing Socialist legislators to attach weakening amendments to legislation intended to incorporate those changes.

In the past, Socialist legislators have been known for "empty threats," said Vasiliki Siouti, a political reporter at the center-left daily Eleftherotypia.

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.

Most Socialist legislators are too concerned about losing their seats to try to bring down the government right now.This outcome, however, will not put an end to Mr Valls's troubles.

A careful political tactician, however, Mr. Hollande has said he wants to keep separate from the marriage law the demand of some Socialist legislators that the government also legalize access to state-financed help for married lesbian couples seeking to bear children.

PARIS — Pierre Moscovici, a Socialist legislator, is "in mourning," he said in an interview, and so are the Socialists.

Even Gérard Bapt, a Socialist legislator who argued for the bill, conceded that the health argument was weak.

"If Sarkozy could do it, he would declare a war every week," said Didier Mathus, an opposition Socialist legislator on the foreign affairs committee of Parliament.

The Socialist legislator Pierre Moscovici, a close ally of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Thursday that he would support François Hollande for president.

"In our country there is a justice for ordinary citizens, and a justice for others," said Arnaud Montebourg, a muckraking Socialist legislator in the National Assembly.

Even Pope Francis is more liberal than she is when it comes to abortion," says Victoria Donda, an opposition socialist legislator in Buenos Aires.