Almost 50% of voters want Strauss-Kahn back

SOME 60% of left-leaning French voters want former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose high-profile trial on sexual assault charges could now collapse, to return to French politics, a poll released yesterday showed.

Among the general public, 49% want Strauss-Kahn to return to the French political scene while 45% are against it, a Harris Interactive poll of 1,000 French people aged 18 and over.

The poll was taken after Strauss-Kahn’s release from house arrest on Friday and news that questions had been raised about the credibility of his accuser.