DSK - NOW A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ?

In political circles things move quickly !!!  Sometimes too quickly !!!

While DSK was locked away in NEW  YORK, Socialists in FRANCE were all regretting his absence in the forthcoming Party Primaries to elect the Official Socialist Candidate for the 2012 Presidential Election.  Before his sudden indictment in N Y for sexually assaulting a chambermaid, he was generally considered to be the best Socialist candidate to unseat President Sarkozy.

Suddenly, yesterday, July 1, 2011 at a court meeting, it transpires that the chambermaid was not a totally reliable witness !!!  The case goes on but explanations are still required to explain the presence of DSK semen on the chambermaid's clothing.

Socialists have been taken aback.  DSK has risen from the dead !!!  Nobody really wants to be heard saying that it is too late for him to stand.  Some consider that the deadline to register for the Primary Election should be extended. 

Things really have changed, because when he was still the IMF Managing Director, in order to stand he had to resign his post before he could take part in the Socialist Primaries !!!  This is an IMF rule.  He did in fact resign when he was indicted because he could no longer fulfill his functions from prison !!!

Socialist politicians are in a quandry. Several want to be chosen as the Official Socialist Candidate but are wary to exclude the possibility of a DSK candidacy.  A return of DSK at a late date haunts them !!!

Some socialist politicians in fact imagine that all the problems of DSK are behind him !!!  This is not yet the case.

The problems women have faced when in contact with DSK have been openly and widely debated recently in France.  Some clearly think that a President should be a better example than DSK has turned out to be. 

What happened in the Hotel room 2806 with the Chambermaid, consensuel or not, will never restore the honorability of any man who aspires to be President of France. If DSK loses the votes of women on that score, another Socialist Candidate may be a better option !!!