Kahn comeback seen difficult
PARIS (Reuters) France Socialist Party said on Monday it was unlikely its erstwhile star Dominique Strauss Kahn would enter the 2012 presidential race, despite Canada Goose sale the weakening of the sex assault case against him in New York.
A man reads the New York Daily News, which features former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss Kahn on its front page, in Manhattan July 2, 2011. REUTERS/Allison Joyce
Party spokesman Benoit Hamon said the canada goose coats idea that Strauss Kahn could now run for the cheap canada goose uk presidency was weakest of all possible scenarios for Canada Goose Jackets the former IMF chief political future.
He said, however, that if he opted to make a late entry canada goose uk outlet for the Socialists October primary, beyond the July 13 deadline for candidates to register, the party leadership would not block it.
leave Dominique Strauss Kahn some breathing space and let canada goose coats on sale him speak once he is ready, Hamon told a news conference.
me, it become unbearable, Banon later told cheap Canada Goose French weekly L have borne this on my own for eight years.
see Strauss Kahn freed, Cheap Canada Goose Clearance then eating dinner in a luxury restaurant with friends, made canada goose factory sale me sick, she added, referring to reports Strauss Kahn dined on pasta with cagooseclearance truffles to celebrate his release from Canada Goose Online house arrest in the United States.
The left lead over Sarkozy in opinion polls has narrowed sharply since Strauss Kahn exit as a canada goose store possible contender.
In a BVA poll published on Monday, 63 percent of respondents said they did not think Strauss Kahn, a former finance minister, would run for election.
Socialists canada goose uk shop called on Monday for an inquiry into the rush to judgment against canada goose clearance sale Strauss Kahn, accused of trying to rape a hotel maid, while Interior Minister Claude Gueant dismissed mutterings of a political plot as
Strauss Kahn abrupt reversals of fortune have angered French opinion, which broadly buy canada goose jacket saw the New York police decision to parade him after his arrest, disheveled and canada goose in handcuffs, as trial by media and a gross violations of his rights.
Analysts say the influential center leftist could choose to try to strengthen the Socialists election campaign through a backstage role, but note the picture painted of him as a sexual predator could damage the party.
A judge released Strauss Kahn from house arrest on Friday after prosecutors uncovered what they called a pattern Canada Goose Parka of lying by his accuser that uk canada goose outlet they said undermined her credibility. The sex assault charges remain in place.
(L R) France’s Socialist party member and European deputy Harlem Desir, Socialist Party member Francois Hollande, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, Socialist Party First Secretary Martine Aubry and Socialist Party member Segolene Royal attend their National Convention in canada goose uk black friday Paris May 28, Canada Goose Coats On Sale 2011. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
While five contenders are jostling in France for the Socialist nomination, Strauss Kahn is confined to the United States ahead of his next court hearing on Canada Goose Outlet July Canada Goose online 18.
PUBLIC SPLIT Opinion polls show voters are deeply divided over whether he could return buy canada goose jacket cheap to politics after the muck raking canadian goose jacket that has followed one of the most dramatic political downfalls in history.
Strauss Kahn allies are rallying round him.
Celebrity philosopher Bernard Henri Levy said Strauss Kahn was the sole victim in the affair and should return to politics.
is only one victim, in terms of someone whose life has been shattered. It DSK, Levy told Europe 1 radio, using a popular uk canada goose nickname for Strauss Kahn. a man whose life has been trampled on, broken, discredited, degraded.
Francois Hollande, the left new frontrunner for 2012, told RTL radio there should be an inquiry into possible foul play.
could have been a trap. In life, there can canada goose black friday sale always be somebody who tries to manipulate you, to trap you, he said.
Socialist deputy Pierre Moscovici also called for an inquiry to establish whether there canada goose clearance had been judicial errors.