Impeachment proceedings against the French president passed their first round of parliamentary scrutiny Tuesday when the assembly's 22-person committee judged the procedure admissable, voting 12 to 10 in favour...

Macron can count on his centrist Ensemble (Together) coalition and the mainstream right Republicans to vote against...

The Socialists have also announced they will not vote to impeach Macron.

What gives?

  • mulcahey@lemm.ee
    hexagon
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    1 day ago

    wow I haven't learned anything from these replies, y'all are about as helpful as the French socialist party I guess

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    2 days ago

    There is no socialist party anywhere in Europe, just confused Keynesians daydreaming about MMT

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      If the Europeans had been dreaming about MMT they would have called for abolishing the euro currency. The European left doesn’t even want to leave the eurozone. That’s how dire the situation is over there.

  • LeZero [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    The French Socialist party is about as socialist as the SPD in Germany

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 days ago

    not that i'd deny the allegations of them being social democrats, but they wouldn't have sufficient votes with them either shrug-outta-hecks

  • edge [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    The "Socialist Party" are succdems at best, i.e. liberals.