Word: socialist
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STAN STEVENS: Harvard senior, socialist playboy and PSLM member
...Prime Minister for the past six years, António Guterres, quit in December after his Socialist Party (PS) was trounced in municipal elections by its main rival, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Guterres had two years left in his term but felt bound to step down after such a huge slap, the worst part of which was that the Social Democrats captured the City Hall in Lisbon for the first time since the 1974 revolution that ended decades of dictatorship. With general elections on March 17, many Portuguese commentators think Guterres stepped aside just in time for the country...
...unlucky position of having to persuade the Portuguese to instal another Socialist Prime Minister is Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, sometimes called Mr. Minimum Wage for having introduced one under Guterres. He and Durão Barroso faced off in a TV debate last week, continually talking over each other and not saying where they would rein in spending. This despite a manifesto calling for just that clarity - plus a long list of fiscal reforms - signed by eight prominent Portuguese, economists and a lawyer, of varying political persuasions. The lawyer, Vasco Vieira de Almeida, insisted after the debate that "quick action...
...world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness,” for “conduct that is in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.” And none of them will be teaching at Harvard next semester...
...this case, like the alleged rpr slush funds, has run into a procedural brick wall. In January 1999, the Constitutional Council ruled that an acting President cannot be tried by a criminal court. "Chirac is the only candidate who needs to be elected to escape his legal destiny," said Socialist Deputy Arnaud Montebourg. "If he's not elected, he will immediately be served a summons by three investigating magistrates...