Berlin - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Director of the Fund currency International, lack many important events in our days. He missed a meeting with Chancellor German Angela Merkel on Sunday, and he did attend the meeting of European Finance Ministers in Brussels today. But much more importantly, in all likelihood, Mr. Strauss-Kahn missed an opportunity to become the next President of the France.
Before the NYPD he arrested Saturday at JFK airport on charges of sexual assault, brought by a servant of Manhattan hotel, French Socialist Strauss-Kahn has been widely expected soon declare his intention to run for President in the 2012 elections. Now class French policy, most of all the Socialist Party (PS), is trying to assess the consequences of his arrest.
Strauss-Kahn is to appear in Court today in New York, where he is supposed to pleaded not guilty.
"The new sounds of New York as a clap of Thunder," said Socialist leader Martine Aubry. "I myself, like everyone, am totally surprised." I would ask the Socialists to stay United and responsible. ?
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The unit was not characteristic of the French Socialists. Infighting between the personalities of the party played a major role in their defeat in the presidential elections of 2007. Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as the former Minister of finance is known in France, had a good chance to change this. opinion polls had given him a clear lead on the incumbent, President Nicolas Sarkozy. Now the troubled times may be back, with Martine Aubry and former party leader Francois Hollande as probable Socialist contenders for the Presidency.
Conservative Party of UMP of Mr. Sarkozy has not hésité pas to be too happy on the news of New York. Pierre Lellouche, Trade Minister noted that Strauss-Kahn the benefit of the doubt.
a€ ?It an adversarial system in the United States, so that I would like to say is that we should be very cautious on the presumption of innocence and hope that nothing is more distressing fate of this, a €
The far-right National Front was less tact. "This case marks the end of his campaign and will likely prompt the IMF to ask him to leave his post, said the head of the party Marine Le Pen, itself a candidate for the presidential election 2012."
Famous French tolerance?
French voters tolerate celebrates when it comes to the private lives of politicians. Late President Fran?ois Mitterand had a second family and Strauss-Kahn, married three times as Sarkozy, escaped injury after he apologized for a binding with a colleague from the Hungarian IMF in 2008 and called it an "error of judgment".
His style of life of the jet - set may upset the left party: recently, pictures of him getting into the Manager of his Porsche PR gave a new reputation as force being part of "left caviar", or "caviar left" whose way of life is not that of the masses.
But he is highly respected for his work: as Minister of finance in the 1990s, he has even convinced Communists of the need to privatize swathes of Francea€ ? active belonging to the State of s and helped qualify for the euro, and as Director of the IMF, it has become the fireman of the global economy.
All this can now be of little use. DSK political career is in ruins, even if found innocent - and his lawyers have already said that he would have pleaded not guilty.
Claude Askolovitch, political commentator and author of a forthcoming book on Strauss-Kahn, is skeptical about its chances of survival.
"It takes a miracle", Mr. Askolovitch told the monitor. "If there is no indictment, if they prove he was framed and they let him go in a few weeks, he will be elected President of France next year." But no one really believes that this happens. If a shadow of a doubt remains, it is done. ?
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