A missed opportunity for the Socialists

Four Socialist MPs criticise their party's rejection of the constitutional reform in the daily Le Monde: "The adoption of the constitutional reform makes the strategy of the Socialist Party questionable. For ultimately it was not in a position to prevent or amend this reform. ... In fact the reform is intended to increase the power of the parliament and give citizens new rights ... The Socialist Party must question its strategy as an opposition party. Its disqualification comes from its inability to free itself from a kind of Pavlovian anti-Sarkozy reflex that makes it reject any project proposed by the president as a matter of course. This attitude is dangerous. ... It alienates the party from the French people, who no longer want to listen to a party that has become a caricature of an opposition."

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