French politics
The Sarko-slayer?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn mulls a presidential bid
Feb 11th 2010 | PARIS | From The Economist print edition
NO SOONER had he been elected French president in 2007 than Nicolas Sarkozy began to emasculate the opposition. One by one, Socialist grandees were picked off, co-opted or dispatched out of the country. Mr Sarkozy installed no fewer than six figures from the left in government, including Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister. He selected others, such as Jacques Attali, Jack Lang and Michel Rocard, to serve on grand commissions. And he persuaded fellow Europeans to back his nomination of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist one-time finance minister, to head the IMF in Washington.
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