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Why aren't socialists voting to impeach Macron? (www.rfi.fr)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

because they are not socialists

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The NFP doesn't have a majority so not sure if it would be worth trying?