PARIS - France's Socialist Party said on Monday it was unlikely its erstwhile star Dominique Strauss-Kahn would enter the 2012 presidential race, despite the weakening of the sex assault case against him in New York.
Party spokesman Benoit Hamon said the idea that Srauss-Kahn could now run for the presidency was "the weakest" of all possible scenarios for the former IMF chief's political future.
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"Let's leave Dominique Strauss-Kahn some breathing space and let him speak once he is ready," Hamon told a news conference.
In yet another twist that could hurt his future, a lawyer for French writer Tristane Banon told Reuters she would file a complaint against Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday for allegedly trying to rape her in early 2003 when she was 22.
