Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
According to the French papers he is now back in the race with a bullet, the Socialist Party are discussing delaying their nomination process so he can be named after the court case (assuming, which they are assuming, that he will be cleared.) His popularity in France has soared. And the IMF has not refused loans to Greece, which was supposed to be the purpose of removing him from that post.
Quite ... remember, he'd have had to quit the IMF anyway to fight the French election (can't really do that effectively from another continent!) and the French have a disturbingly high tolerance of appalling conduct by politicians and other public figures. Remember, this is the country which sheltered a notorious paedophile rapist from US courts even after conviction! Even if the French believe he's guilty, as long as he isn't physically detained at the time I doubt it will be any impediment to his campaign - perhaps the reverse.

Which, with conspiracy theories on the agenda, raises the possibility of it being a plot on his own side, perhaps backfiring slightly ... a few more minutes, he'd have been airborne and safely back on French soil, with no risk of extradition and a glamorous legend of how he outwitted NYPD to boost his profile back home!