It's just what French politics needs.
The return of another disgraced dinosaur.
Let's hope it's just idle gossip dreamt up by some bored journalist at Le Figaro desperate to deflect attention from the potential implosion of the opposition centre-right Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP).
A piece in Tuesday's edition of Le Figaro suggests that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is preparing to make his return to politics in 2014.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (screenshot from i>Télé interview September 2012) |
DSK isn't thinking about taking to the national political stage, says Le Figaro, rather he's interested in securing the Socialist party's nomination to run for the post of mayor in the town of Sarcelles in the northern suburbs of Paris in the 2014 municipal elections.
Far-fetched?
Well it might be a bit of a stretch with the judicial problems still hanging over him, but as the weekly magazine L'Express points out, DSK has been mayor of the town before (from 1995 to 1997) and we all know a criminal record doesn't necessarily mean the end of a political career in France.
But hang about. Isn't there someone already in the job?
Of course there is - another member of the Socialist party and a close friend of DSK, François Pupponi.
He was contacted by the free daily Metro on Tuesday and and didn't mince his words when asked what he thought about a possible DSK return.
"What's this crap?" he's reported as saying in response to the piece in Le Figaro.
"I don't comment on rumours or bull***t that some journalists make up just to say something."
Oh well. That's telling it like it is...hopefully.
The problem of course with politicians in France (as well as many other countries come to that) is that you can really be certain how sincere they're being - can you?
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