"In this case, we know there are a victim, but we do not yet know if the victim is the complainant or the accused," said Tuesday the leader of the Socialist deputies, Jean-Marc Ayrault. "The both have the same respect. We do not want to feel that we are either in the dropping of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is that we defend against the evidence," he said before the Socialist Group meeting in the National Assembly.
Also Tuesday, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Martine Aubry, said his side need to "wait for the facts" and "version of Dominique Strauss-Kahn."At a national office held at the Paris headquarters of the PS, she also asked to "respect the young woman" who accused him.
DSK promised to fire a nuclear
The prudence of these remarks contrasted with those of other socialists, such as Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, which evoked Monday innuendo conspiracy against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, indicted in New York for an alleged attempted rape of a maid, last Saturday.In a statement to the press, his lieutenant had launched from the steps of the Paris headquarters of the SP that the "nuclear fire" had actually been promised to the Director General of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which intended to get into the presidential campaign French.
Tuesday morning, they were still some to leap to defend whatever the polls placed in a better position to access the Elysee in 2012 and denouncing the images of their champion handcuffed. "This is killing media", denounced the former justice minister, the socialist Robert Badinter, on France Inter, who accuses U.S. authorities of having "wanted this exhibition."Socialist MP Jack Lang, for his part felt that it was "not unthinkable" that the judge who delivered on Monday remanded in custody had wanted "to pay for a French".
The PS side of the post-DSK
If Martine Aubry today called a "great restraint", because the scenarios of the post-Dominique Strauss-Kahn agitate the news.Already, since the indictment of DSK, the predecessor to Martine Aubry at the head of the PS, François Hollande, rose in the polls from outsider status to that of primary favorite socialist planned next fall.
According to RTL radio, declared candidate Segolene Royal was to meet Tuesday DSK to Paris to study the conditions of his joining - that belies the Royal entourage. Finally, Martine Aubry is pressed by his relatives to declare himself a candidate since the former secretary is bound by a "pact" with mutual withdrawal of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
But the first secretary said that even if the lines move, the case does not change the DSK gives the PS."We're not changing anything to our schedule, characteristic of a party is to stay focused," she said Tuesday morning on France Info. As for his possible candidacy, she said that it is "not the time to talk."
