But the cabinet is split between those who want to move toward a socialist, managed economy and those who embrace the market.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, managed to turn his long-shot run into a mass movement with proposals to combat wealth inequality, increase access to healthcare and education, and defend the environment.
The French Socialists managed to attract 2.5 million people to select their presidential candidate in 2011; a similar number voted in the Italian Democratic party's primary in 2013.
In ensuing provincial elections, the Socialist Party demonstrated recovery from the setback of 1966, and in the national elections of 1970 the Socialists managed to win a plurality of votes, becoming the strongest party in parliament, with 81 seats, though falling short of a majority.
"The socialist government managed to sound leftist, but to do the right things," said Thomas Mayer, the chief European economist at Deutsche Bank.
New construction permits have been in free-fall all year.As for the implementation of the far-reaching reforms that the socialist government managed to push through parliament, it remains uncertain.
Unlike in Greece, where the single-party socialist government managed to hold on to power last spring in spite of the economic shock of the bond market battering, Ireland's Fianna Fáil-Green coalition has imploded under the weight of unpopularity.
Sanders rode his self-proclaimed radical ideals all the way to a virtual tie in Iowa which, as Jamelle Bouie noted at Slate, marks the first time in a century that a socialist has managed to build a movement with real mass appeal, not to mention an actual shot at the presidency.
I called for the issue to be debated during the last part-session, and I wonder at the fact that a month passed before our socialist friends managed to reach a consensus with us regarding a motion, even though there should not have been any difficulties as we agree on the basic points.
In 2003 elections the UI won enough council seats to jointly govern with the Socialists, and managed to get the cycling plans in the coalition agreement.
One poll found that only 17 percent of the public had faith in Mr. Papandreou, a Socialist, to manage the country's financial crisis, but just 26 percent believed that Mr. Samaras could do a better job.
