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The Socialists’ two-horse race
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| Contributor | La Fayette |
| Last Edited | La Fayette Jul 06, 2011 10:33am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | France 24 |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Dominique Strauss-Kahn threw off his bathrobe in a luxury Manhattan hotel in May, consensually or not, he also threw away his chances of becoming France’s next president.
While he was not officially a candidate, Strauss-Kahn was widely touted as the main opposition Socialist Party’s best chance to torpedo President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election cruise.
Instead, news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in the USA hit the French political landscape like a dirty bomb, and cracked the Socialist’s primaries wide open. |
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