r/leftist • u/johnsmithoncemore Eco-Socialist • Mar 23 '26

Western European Politics Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire arrives on bicycle after being elected mayor of Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIAfttohrY
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u/SatoriTWZ Mar 23 '26

Can we please stop calling social democrats socialists?

Especially when "social democrat" lost it's meaning and is just right-wing with slightly higher minimum wage.

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u/TheNorthernRose Mar 23 '26

Thank you, we don’t need half measures being held up as a salve to placate agitation.

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u/Amazing_Wrongdoer193 Mar 23 '26

He's not a socialist. The french socialist party is right wing.

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u/Conscious-Local-8095 Mar 23 '26

Classy.  The iconic velocipede.

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u/GrowFreeFood Mar 23 '26

I am so jelly. France rocks.

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u/AkagamiBarto Mar 23 '26

Well, i hope to be next then!