Word: leftist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which was bad news for Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who is expected to square off against Gaullist President Jacques Chirac in next year's national elections. Pollsters and pundits had predicted a "pink tide" of leftist victories that would have given Jospin a crucial boost in advance of next spring's parliamentary and presidential votes. Instead, Jospin was engulfed by a "blue tide" of conservative victories that raised worrisome questions about his future chances. Perhaps the most alarming sign was that five of his cabinet members were defeated in local contests, including such stalwarts as Labor Minister Elisabeth Guigou...
...school in the ninth grade to learn a trade. Instead, she went to a technical high school and then to university, where she earned a law degree. With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described Künast as "a bigmouth from [Berlin's neighborhood of] Kreuzberg, who can hardly tell a Holstein cow from a Vietnamese water buffalo...
...there is another reason why liberals should engage in the debate with conservatives over homosexuality: conservative arguments opposing homosexuality are immoral. Just as some on the right have proclaimed a cultural war against homosexuals and other leftist groups, our society needs a concerted effort to discredit and expose as immoral the conservative views on and efforts opposing homosexuality...
...Motivé-e-s has attracted hundreds of volunteers and seems to be stirring voters as well. Polls show the leftist collective winning up to 17% in first-round voting-third behind the Socialist-led Union of the Left's 26%, and 39% for the conservatives who have controlled City Hall for 30 years. In addition to its fresh, civic allure, Motivé-e-s enjoys a sympathique association with the popular rock group Zebda-whose activist music urges social and political engagement. Motivé-e-s took its name from Zebda's 1998 hit remake of the Resistance Partisans...
...underdogs' biggest opportunity to make a splash. Some Toulousians resent outgoing Mayor Dominique Baudis' decision to "parachute" a high-profile outsider-former Culture Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy-as his chosen successor. Though the conservative list currently leads in opinion polls, some locals anticipate a link-up between the traditional leftist parties and Motivé-e-s allowing the new movement to participate in the left's return to power...