Sentence examples for socialist majority from inspiring English sources

A Socialist majority would be the first in a decade.

The council, which has a socialist majority, is expected to easily pass the proposal.

In the anticipated elections that Chirac called in 1997, a Socialist majority swept back to power, and Jospin returned to head a coalition of Socialists, Communists, and Greens.

Updated, 10 40 p.m., June 22 | WHEN France's National Assembly reconvenes on Tuesday, its new Socialist majority will include a longtime New Yorker.

Politicians from both the Socialist majority and the conservative opposition supported it, with the government arguing it was urgent with the apparent spread of Islamist radicalisation in France.

(French regional elections in 2010 went overwhelmingly Socialist, and, in 2011, France's Senate gained a Socialist majority for the first time in history).

Those who wanted to signal their discontinuity with the Blair years, while not sounding too radical, would call themselves democratic socialists – that is, they believed in socialism but were happy to trust a sensible, non-socialist majority to democratically overrule them.

A letter from Prime Minister George A. Papandreou, which was read out in Parliament after the vote, said that Ms. Katseli had been expelled from the party, narrowing to 153 the Socialists' majority in the 300-seat House.

The non-socialist majority of the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the "Power Act" of the socialists, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

Hollande is hoping for a Socialist absolute majority.

But although a Socialist absolute majority remains a possibility, it is far from a certainty.