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Okay, the guy is "center left" of French politics. Whats "far left" of French politics? quote:
ORIGINAL: juliaoceania fast reply Here is what wiki says about this man Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French pronunciation: [d?minik st?os kan]; born 25 April 1949), often referred to in the popular press as DSK,[2][3] is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France (PS). He became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 28 September 2007, with the backing of his country's president, Nicolas Sarkozy. He is a full professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po"). Strauss-Kahn was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government. He belongs to the right wing of the PS (which is on the center-left of French politics) and sought the nomination in the primaries to the Socialist presidential candidacy for the 2007 election, but he was defeated by Ségolène Royal in November 2006. I
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