POLITICS: Primary socialist Martine Aubry "take responsibility"

REUTERS - Martine Aubry made Sunday a further step towards a Socialist candidate for the primary pre-presidential election, explaining that she "wanted the Left wins" and "want to be helpful" to his country.
In an interview with France 2, the first secretary of the PS said that his remark was "very advanced" on the subject, speaking of "determination" of "enthusiasm" and "responsibility."

Words chosen carefully to whom some blamed for not having done so far shows his desire to get into the presidential race.
"My desire is that the left wins, and my desire is to be useful to my country," said the mayor of Lille, who is head of the PS for three years.
"Yes," she answered the question of whether it was part of socialist officials may participate in the primary PS in October, which will nominate the candidate of his camp in the race for the Elysee.

Martine Aubry said he started "long ago" a reflection on this subject, "well before" the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former favorite of the polls today charged with sexual assault in the United States.
"Without haste, I keep thinking that this is already, you can imagine, very advanced, and I keep on track because the French are asking us that."

"Be prepared, I prepared myself," she said. "For me, politics is not a career, it is saying all the time: 'Where do I find most useful?"

"I've always taken my responsibilities, the French know and I will take them. They know they can trust me."

"It takes up"

"I say things when I tell them," summed up the former Minister of Employment and standard-bearer for the week of 35 hours.
According to schedule, the candidates for the Socialist primary will be filed between June 28 and July 13.

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the last weekend in New York, has upset the Socialists, who relied on the Director General of the International Monetary Fund to beat the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose candidacy is little doubt.
François Hollande, the primary candidate for PS, is the new favorite of opinion polls, which also places Martine Aubry in a good position when probing the polls in the first round of presidential elections.
Martine Aubry refused to compare the member of Correze, who led the Socialist Party before it for ten years.
"Candidates are not adversaries, they are comrades who are defending what they believe is good for their country and I abide by this rule to the end, I am a candidate or than I am not," she said.
François Hollande will be Sunday evening's guest log 20 hours of TF1.
Other declared candidates for the primary are the member Arnaud Montebourg and Segolene Royal, defeated candidate in the presidential election of 2007.
"An election is never a foregone conclusion but rely on our enthusiasm, on my enthusiasm and my determination to get everything done in 2012 that France finds itself in the background," said Martine Aubry .
The daughter of Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission (1985-1995) who had himself given up to run for the Elysee, acknowledged that the supposed presidential ambitions certain qualities.
"I am a normal woman in that I live like everyone else, but I think when one wants to run for the Presidency of the Republic, it takes a little more," she said.

"He incarnate France, its values ​​must be the same height and time proximity to the French."

CASE DSK: "A mixture of self-sabotage, lack of assessment and a sense of impunity"

Philip D. Jaffe is a psychologist and professor at the University of psychocriminologie Geneva. He also worked in a high security psychiatric hospital affiliated with an institution of Massachusetts Prison Service. In this interview, he appreciates the business Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the light of clinical experience. The indictment of former IMF director for the American justice for attempted rape may be due to an inability to master, in the private sphere of the instincts that dominates in public.

FRANCE 24: If Dominique Strauss-Kahn had actually committed the acts he is accused, explain how such a passage to the act?

Philip D.Jaffe: If he did - and all I could say this will be subject to conditional - this shows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to thank you for a great while impulsivity is quite capable of behave normally in public. When left alone with a woman, he becomes a sort of "wild beast". Yet it has a sense of rules against an outsider, but only when it expresses a need for massive and sexualized domination.Some spoke of hyper-sexuality, I'm not sure we can go that far, but he seems to have a problem to control his impulses.

FRANCE 24: You've probably met during your career, cases of men whose intelligence, proven, could find themselves suddenly overwhelmed by impulses. How can we explain such phenomena?

PDJ: The very smart people can not get rid of their urges: they just happen to control the environment to avoid being unmasked. The intelligence does not move the drives - because it is two different mental records - but it moves the framework within which they operate.

Another analysis would be that for people who border on professional and social implosion, a part of reality becomes like a game by flirting with the limits, their intelligence eludes them. If you look at the case of DSK, as we are presented by the media, for example it is unlikely that a man of his intelligence was able to rush out of the hotel as it is supposed to have done. The phone call he gave to the hotel, which helped locate, prove some form of stupidity, as if his state of stress had prevented him from thinking.It is the fragility of the man who thinks of this.

When you look at the politicians who have been successful, they clearly have a sense of self unique. Conversely, for those who stumble, they say they did not have the stuff.

FRANCE 24: Are you telling us that the acts charged in DSK would be the result of a failed act and unconsciously, he would not be socialist candidate in the primaries - and potentially in the presidential election?

PDJ: I will not cross that line because it would not come here if he had no real ambition. One can imagine that he may have simply been afraid.It's like Nadal when the match! These moments require a full extension in relation to its own capabilities. And that's where the unbridled passions emerged.

What is surprising is that the intelligence of a public figure is also conducted to surround himself and willing to put up protective netting against his own instincts. It is surprising that when this man is about to reach the pinnacle of power, allowed to manage time and organize his time alone in New York!

Political suicide not consistent with the fact that DSK has never had inappropriate behavior in public. He knew what was allowed or not.The acting out - if proven - could be explained by a mixture of self-sabotage, lack of trial, and a sense of impunity.

FRANCE 24: Monitoring anti-suicide in which DSK is placed "with caution" in prison at Rikers Island is it a normal procedure or is there a real risk of suicide?

PDJ: It's a habit with high-value prisoners, especially since we do not know his mental state. DSK is probably in a "fluid", that is to say, it goes from moments when he is very combative with others where he is very depressed. His behavior impassive during the hearing where we can see the marble shows some control. But it takes very little time to switch.

This is an extraordinary reversal than being American in a cell, a tumble absolute and brutal. DSK is certainly treated with more respect than a criminal lambda, but the physical conditions are not the same. In prison, suffered humiliating medical examinations, it is treated as a criminal, isolated from his family and friends, you're scared, the feeling that everything was lost. Then mental states can vary every five minutes.

PAKISTAN: John Kerry went to Islamabad two weeks after the death of Bin Laden

U.S. Senator John Kerry was Monday in Islamabad to try to restore relations between the United States and its key ally, as it arrived at a "defining moment" in Pakistan after the elimination of Osama bin Laden.

The Democratic chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, is the first senior U.S. official to visit Pakistan since a helicopter-borne U.S. commandos killed the leader of al-Qaida May 2 in Abbottabad, a city-garrison two hours drive from Islamabad.

The attack "illegal" according to Islamabad, caused a stir at a population overwhelmingly anti-American, not for the death of bin Laden, who has raised little protest, but for the "violation of sovereignty "Pakistan.

The CIA, who led the operation, confirmed that she had not warned the Pakistani authorities for fear of leakage.U.S. officials have since reported suspicion of "complicity" in the military and intelligence community to explain the presence of brain attacks of Sept. 11 in a city housing more than 10,000 soldiers.

Many parliamentarians in Washington advocated greater severity towards Pakistan, which from the end of 2001, had proclaimed his support for the "war against terrorism" and delivered, since, dozens of senior Al-Qaeda to Americans.

Pakistan, who protested softly since 2004 against the very frequent fire missiles CIA drones targeting the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal areas of north-west frontier with Afghanistan, has raised his voice after the raid cons bin Laden.He threatened to Washington to review its policy of cooperation on counterterrorism if such an incursion occurs.

Their sides, prominent members of Congress calling for cutting funds allocated considerable since late 2001 by the United States to Pakistan to finance its war effort against Al Qaeda and its allies, who have taken refuge in the tribal areas since the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.

Washington has given more than $ 18 billion to Pakistan in nearly ten years, mainly as support to his omnipotent army, and in 2009, notably under the leadership of John Kerry, Congress authorized an extension of 7.5 billion over 5 years in civilian aid.

But observers believe it is dangerous for Washington to alienate the only nuclear military power in the Muslim world, inhabited by nearly 180 million inhabitants, when the international coalition comprised two-thirds of U.S. troops bogged down in its war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Senator Kerry arrived in Islamabad late Sunday night and a sign that the army who actually run this country according to experts unanimous, he met upon his arrival Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, the all-powerful Chief of Staff , relegating to Monday's meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

The army has assured that General Kayani had conveyed to Mr.Kerry of "intense emotion" has caused the U.S. raid in the army.

"This is a decisive moment in our relationship with Pakistan", said Mr. Kerry on Sunday in Kabul.

Before the death of bin Laden, Washington had always praised the efforts of Islamabad in the fight against al Qaeda but felt that the army does not produce enough effort against the Taliban in Afghanistan in their rear bases in Pakistan.

But Mr. Kerry said that there was evidence that Islamabad "has knowledge of certain activities" of the Taliban on its territory, and that it was "very disturbing". "We must find a way to move forward, if possible.Otherwise, it could be a series of negative consequences that may be important, "he warned.

LIBYA: According to the CNT, the French killed in Benghazi was conducting illegal activities

The five French working for private security company Secopex, including his boss killed by rebels during the operation, were conducting "illegal activities" that endangered the security of Libya, announced Friday the Rebellion Jamahiriya.

"On the evening of May 11, the local security forces in Benghazi were ordered to arrest a group of 5 French conducting illicit activities that endangered the safety of free Libya," said the National Transitional Council ( CNT), the governing body of the rebellion, in a statement.

"These men had been under surveillance for some time," the CNT.

"Unfortunately, he was shot by accident after trying to resist. He was taken to hospital but died. The four were arrested," also said the rebellion.

FOOTBALL - THE QUOTA CASE: No legal proceedings against members of the FFF

Ten days after the beginning of the controversy over the possible application of ethnic quotas by the French Football Federation, the outcome of the case is imminent. The Minister for Sport, Chantal Jouanno, spoke Tuesday about the investigation conducted by the services of his ministry, and whose findings were surrendered on the evening of Monday.

Chantal Jouanno announced that the Ministry of Youth and Sports would not be the case in court: "The evidence we have does not allow us to prove the existence of a quota system or a system project quotas.Today we do not have elements to convey anything to the prosecutor. "

After noting that the football world had been "seriously shaken by the revelations of the site Mediapart," the minister confirmed that he still appeared "very clear that discussions on ways to limit the number of players and binational quotas [had] been held. "

No witch hunt

Chantal Jouanno also came on the individual responsibilities of several executives of the Federation.She acknowledged that the national technical director (DTN) Blaquart Francis had "taken" from "About regrettable" but nevertheless assured that "no document [would] suggest that a discriminatory philosophy has been maintained to the DTN" .

She has finally ruled on the case largely Laurent Blanc considers it inseparable from the context: "It was an internal meeting at the DTN. [...] White attended for the first time this type of meeting . The hearings clearly shows that he discovered this debate. He had no firm plan on the subject, no notice, "she explains.There are no facts to suggest that White condone discriminatory guidelines instead. "

And the minister quoted the coach of the Blues to support him: "If only blacks in the poles and if blacks want to play there in the France team that fits me very well."

Chantal Jouanno also said that the investigation by its staff tended to prove that Muhammad Belkacemi had "not submitted documents to the press." Last week, the adviser acknowledged that National had made the recording of the meeting complained of November 8.There will be a "reminder to the rule" for him "that it is forbidden to record meetings."

Call for change to FFF

While recalling that "the State [could] do not interfere in the affairs of the federation," Chantal Jouanno felt that there was "no doubt be heavy make decisions within the FFF. She said it had proposed an "organizational audit" to instances of domestic football, and a "managerial support.Recommendations that the FFF has no obligation to follow nonetheless.

Parallel to the survey by the Ministry of Sports, the Federation conducted its own investigation internally, in collaboration with government departments.

The ratio of the two investigators was delivered Tuesday morning to the president of the FFF Duchossoy Fernand, who will unveil an outline in the day Tuesday.

According to a source familiar with the matter told AFP the paper would report "internal problems" but has found no "wrongdoing" or "discrimination characterized.

In addition to the scheduled press conference on Tuesday, the FFF will hold a special federal council on Thursday.It will discuss, identify potential internal administrative penalties.

LIBYA: Libyan Transitional Council, an authority that fails to convince

Created in the euphoric early days of the revolution in Benghazi in February, but few recognized internationally and economically driven, the Libyan National Transitional Council (CNT) is it really a viable institution capable of influencing the scene policy?

"The question is on everyone's lips at a time when the conflict drags," says Jean-Pierre Maulny, Middle East specialist at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). "Many Western leaders are questioning the legitimacy of this body."

The absence of power-cons Libyan nevertheless gives little choice to European and American leaders. The CNT is the sole interlocutor of the international community."This is the only organization that resists visible," added the specialist. A view shared by Dominique Moisi, an expert on Middle East at the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI). "They are strong because they are unique," said the expert. "Their main asset is their existence. It invalidates the legitimacy to Gaddafi.

"No charismatic figure"

Both experts agree, however, the "fragility" of this reciprocating. "From a political standpoint, the insurgents have no charismatic leader," said Dominique Moisi."Their members are too small and lack a unifying figure is a major flaw for a body of resistance."

Composed of 31 members, the CNT is composed of a vast majority of anonymous - lawyers, professors, doctors. Civilians who, despite themselves, they damage the image of the Transition Board. "A resistance organization operates through two levers: a charismatic figure or organization infallible. Here we have neither one nor the other."

Cash also appears to be lacking Libyan insurgents. To fill their coffers, the rebels decided to go to their Western allies.The rebellion assess its needs for the next three months to three billion dollars to pay the balances of the insurgents, food, medicines and other basic supplies. "They have no money and the Libyan economy threatens to collapse," says Jean-Pierre Maulny.

In this context, the international community is reluctant to invest money in an organization as unstructured. "Western leaders refuse to finance weapons on which they have no control," says the specialist.

Diplomatic bungle

On the diplomatic front, the Transition Board fouls a little brushes. Thursday, CNT announced it has been recognized by Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands. Only problem, all three have denied."A false step that speaks volumes about the communication of the rebels," quipped Dominique Moisi. Denmark "has recognized the CNT as a dialogue partner." No more. Spain and the Netherlands as a valid interlocutor.

Only France, Qatar, Italy and The Gambia have officially recognized the Resistance Council as the legitimate representative of the people. "It's little," admits Jean-Pierre Maulny, "too few to influence global politics."

Does this mean that the CNT is destined to disappear? "It's a premature meets Dominique Moisi. The fall of Gaddafi is the ultimate test. It is only then that we will know if the movement will die or if a political leader will emerge ..." Although caution the side of Jean-Pierre Maulny."The CNT today derives its strength from the Hate crystallized around Gaddafi, but tomorrow ... If the regime falls, the CNT will prepare the future, an alternative to the Guide, win the support of the Libyans ... Are they really prepared and structured? "

The Conservative Harper wins a majority parliamentary

AFP - Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister, Conservative Stephen Harper, was reappointed Monday to head the government, his party won most seats in the House in early parliamentary elections.

According to preliminary official results, the Harper Conservatives get 166 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons.

"Canadians have chosen hope, a strong and united Canada, and we will govern for all Canadians, even those who did not vote for us," assured Mr. Harper, beaming in front of his supporters who applauded vigorously in Calgary, Alberta (west).

"Our government will defend the interests of all regions and all Canadians, including the great nation of Quebec," he said.

Alluding to the defeat of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, whose seats were often taken over by New Democratic Party (NDP, left), Mr.Harper has stated its intention to "make Canada a freer and more united."

"Quebecers have decided to send the Federalists in the House of Commons and we will work together for the betterment of our country."

Beyond the victory of the Conservatives get a majority after leading a minority government from the elections of 2006 and 2008, these elections will be completely transformed the political landscape.

The NDP confirmed its historic breakthrough announced by the polls, winning 106 electoral districts, nearly triple the 36 seats held in the outgoing House.This is by far the best score in the history of this party.

His meteoric rise was mainly at the expense of the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois, literally rolled by the wave "orange" training left.

Carried by the "wind of change" announced by its charismatic leader Jack Layton, the NDP is poised to become the official opposition in the government of Mr. Harper.

But change is not on the agenda of the Conservative leader who had, instead, focused his campaign on the stability and continuity, promising Canadians continued economic recovery and pledging not to raise taxes, Unlike the NDP and Liberals.

The fate of the Liberal Party leader, former academic Michael Ignatieff seems sealed by the disastrous result which gives him 35 seats. Mr. Ignatieff has campaigned honorably but has not created a decisive impact in the electorate and lost his own seat.His party, who does not like losers, could soon grow to the exit.

Finally, the sharp fall of the Bloc Quebecois, with just four seats against 47 held in the outgoing parliament, announced a steep turn in the attitude of the inhabitants of French-speaking province and greater openness to the English-speaking Canada. Its leader Gilles Duceppe, defeated in his riding of Montreal, announced his resignation.

Other highlights of the poll, there had been elected the leader of the Greens, Elizabeth May, a historic first, and the defeat of the Conservative Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the outgoing government.

Participation remained low at 60.3%, according to provisional figures, barely higher than the historic low of 58.8% registered in 2008.