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[Antonio the Sixth]

They were without any doubt very successful. The"left-wing" part is open to debates, though.

[Antonio the Sixth]

They were without any doubt very successful. The"left-wing" part is open to debates, though.

Rhetoric aside, no different to any other social democrat-led government of that time then. Of course he said 'centre-left'; I don't think you'd ever catch him going any further

That's the rhetoric indeed : didn't he say himself "there is no right-wing or left-wing policies, there are policies that work and policies that don't work" ? Of course most of the left-wing governments of that time weren't really different indeed. And for the post-Thatcher British political spectrum, no doubt he should be considered left.

[Antonio the Sixth]

New piece of trolling from our beloved Libertas Kid.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I still believe Romano Prodi was almost a saint...had to manage a coalition going from demochristians to hardcore communists,did so succesfully for a few years and managed to get us in the Eurozone.
And,of course,beat Berlusconi twice out of two general elections.

He had the potential to be very successful, had the parties (and the voter) given him a true chance to act.

So, everybody nominates their own local left-wing government of the 90s instead? How shocking. But I certainly won't nominate Jospin's government on my part.

I will do it for you. Jospin was great.

[Antonio the Sixth]

No, but Brian Cowen was until a few days ago.

I know you like to practice irony but here I really need to bed sure. You... are... joking... right ?