Five months after his arrest in New York on attempted rape charges, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is still making lurid headlines and France's Socialists are breathing a sigh of relief at a narrow escape.
Once touted as the French left's best hope to take on President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election, Strauss-Kahn has been caught up in a series of scandals despite New York police dropping charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.
Now France's Socialists are turning their backs on the man they once hailed as the party's saviour.
"We can see in hindsight that his candidacy would have been very vulnerable," prominent Socialist lawmaker Pierre Moscovici told news magazine Le Point this week.
"I am disgusted," a high-ranking French Socialist once close to Strauss-Kahn said. "I have the feeling of being cruelly betrayed, the feeling that I was duped by Dominique." Full story...
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Once touted as the French left's best hope to take on President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election, Strauss-Kahn has been caught up in a series of scandals despite New York police dropping charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.
Now France's Socialists are turning their backs on the man they once hailed as the party's saviour.
"We can see in hindsight that his candidacy would have been very vulnerable," prominent Socialist lawmaker Pierre Moscovici told news magazine Le Point this week.
"I am disgusted," a high-ranking French Socialist once close to Strauss-Kahn said. "I have the feeling of being cruelly betrayed, the feeling that I was duped by Dominique." Full story...
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