Sunday, May 15, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fall is a blow for France's Socialists – and a boost for Le Pen...


Everything was ready, even the T-shirts with the slogan: "Yes, we Kahn". Even the hagiographic biography, with its chapters on extramarital sex leading to its happy ending: its subject's proclamation of eternal love to his celebrity wife. But France woke up today to the news that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF and the man tipped to replace Nicolas Sarkozy next year as French president, was behind bars in New York, charged with the sexual assault of a hotel maid.

Although DSK, as he is known in France, denies the accusations, he's clearly now out of the IMF, out of the French presidential race and, most likely, out of politics altogether.

Before this, DSK had everything going for him: a discredited outgoing president, an opposition party in search of a saviour, and an economic context that made him the ideal man to lead a European country in the midst of the financial storm. He seemed set to win the Socialist party primaries, and to become the second Socialist president of the fifth republic, some 17 years after François Mitterrand. How could he blow his career prospects so stupidly? More...

Don't miss:

  1. IMF head Strauss-Kahn arrested in New York over sexual attack... 
  2. IMF director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, gets to keep job despite affair...
  3. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn being probed for misconduct... 
  4. IMF, raping the world, one poor nation at a time... 
  5. French culture minister Mitterrand in 'boy sex' scandal... 
  6. French political author sees television show dropped after Sarkozy book ... 
  7. French politicians get their collective "culottes" in a bunch as Le Pen outclasses Sarkozy... 

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