Strauss-Kahn, French socialists prepare for his succession to the challenge to Sarkozy

Faced with the refusal of U.S. courts to grant bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French Socialist Party breaks through the inertia and confirm the schedule of primaries for the race socialist Elysium 2012. The announcement, despite calls for caution on a story that many inside the PS, however, define a "private event", decreed the disappearance of the Director of the IMF by the French policy of at least the medium term.