Dominique Strauss-Kahn: who could succeed him?

[arikara]

Source: Guardian

With the global economy still fragile after the worst downturn since the 1930s and Europe gripped by a debt crisis, the scandal involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn could hardly have come at a worse time for the International Monetary Fund.

The organisation now risks being left rudderless as delicate negotiations take place on the terms of a new loan package to Greece and as the fund seeks agreement on policies to prevent a relapse into recession.

It also looks inevitable that there will be a power struggle to fill the vacuum at the fund, with the developing world insisting that the time has come to end the carve up between the Europeans and the Americans of the top jobs at the IMF and its sister organisation, the World Bank.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/15/dominique-strauss-kahn-arrest-imf?intcmp=239

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This is such a strange story. This Dominique Strauss-Kahn was going to run for the Socialist left party in the French election. The French left party can't be very left at all if the candidate they recruit is the head of the IMF. Apparently he was some great reformer in the IMF, but his restructuring deals turned out to be no less repressive than any of his predecessors.

[izquierdista]

1. Max Keiser?

He's a pretty international guy.

[DeSwiss]

5. ....

[Warpy]

2. I actually find myself wondering about this story a lot

DSK is center-left in European terms, which would make him a raging Communist here. There are a lot of rich and powerful fascists in the world who would find him alarming, to say the least.

I'm finding this story has an odor of some sort. I'm going to wait this one out, see what the forensic evidence shows, see if the maid's story holds up, and follow some money.

As for who succeeds him, any old fascist will do, you know.

[sabrina 1]

3. I agree. I would like to know much more about this incident

before passing judgement. It's also been reported that Sarkozy, a good soldier for the Global Capitalists, had started a smear campaign against Kahn in France, before this incident. How fortunate for him that Kahn may have been stupid enough to do the work himself!

He is to be in court today and will plead not guilty, his lawyer says.

A very stupid act for someone who has not displayed evidence in the past that he is a stupid man.

We really know nothing about the incident at this point. Best to withhold judgement.

[Dawson Leery]

4. I must concur. The IMF's shady history should not

get in the way of the facts coming out in this case.

[JackRiddler]

6. DSK was the neoliberal back-up plan now that Sarkozy has made himself unviable.

Neither he nor the IMF nor for that matter most of the Socialist Party leadership could ever be remotely described as left. As you say, Europe has a real left, and they're not it.

[DeSwiss]

7. It appears that this may not be new behavior.....

...just newly http://goo.gl/l4Fjb">uncovered.

[somone]

8. Maybe Christine Lagarde

http://seekingalpha.com/article/270025-why-lagarde-will-be-the-next-imf-managing-director