When a previous Socialist government passed a law banning the advertising of alcohol, grape-growers and other rural folk boiled with resentment and may well have helped the Socialists lose 80 seats in subsequent parliamentary elections.
But the opposition Socialist Party has dismissed the law as ineffective and says it will appeal to the Constitutional Council - France's legislative guarantor.
Congress has the power to pass a law that puts every validated national party (thus including Green, Libertarian, Natural Law, and Socialist) on every state ballot for FEDERAL elections, and also mandating they be included in all debates.
As part of the new law, the current Socialist government will now be allowed to embark on an effort to remove Franco-era symbols and rename roads, avenues and squares.
Keane continues to chronologically log all the important events in Havel's life -- from his formation of a youthful literary circle christened the Thirty-Sixers to his first plays to his imprisonment for his promotion of Charter 77, a document which pointed to the discrepancies between law and reality in socialist Czechoslovakia.
Police and gendarmes say the law and order record of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's government has failed to address poor pay and funding while at the same time making it harder to secure convictions.
The constitutional law expert entered parliament as a Socialist in 1993 and was in cabinet within a year as media minister.
The Latin American radical left, on the other hand, values socialist dictatorship over capitalistic democracies and social justice above the rule of law.
Until these socialist policies of tax piracy are reversed, and true equality of law rather than equality of results is applied to all, get used to the new normal of accelerating economic decline for America, and say good-bye to the American Dream.
In formerly socialist Canada, the corporate tax rate is 16.5%, slated under current law to fall to 15% next year.
Another new law allows the president to transfer the powers and resources of local government to socialist communes, potentially neutering the opposition's electoral victories in many big cities in 2008.
The National Assembly, which is dominated by Hollande's Socialist Party, was expected to pass the bill Tuesday, having approved the most important article of the law with a wide majority earlier this month.
Hollande himself, though he promotes gay marriage as a progressive symbol, admitted he doesn't personally favor allowing medically assisted reproduction to homosexuals, and with the assent of many socialist party officials, had these corresponding measures postponed -- for parliament to decide -- as another law to a future debate, in March, or never.
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