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.

NIGERIA: The legislative postponed to Monday for "organizational problems"

AFP - Nigeria has decided to postpone its elections lésiglatives to Monday because of organizational problems that marred the vote scheduled for Saturday, said the head of the electoral commission.

"To preserve the integrity of elections and retain overall control process effective, the commission has taken the difficult but necessary to repel Monday, April 4, 2011 elections to the National Assembly," saidAttahiru Jega the press.

The election of 360 members of the House of Representatives and 109 Senators would be Saturday the first of a planned series in the month, a test for democracy in the country's most populous country.

The most important presidential has been set for Saturday, April 9. It must be followed on 16 regional elections.

ALPINE SKIING: Season ends with a bang for Adrien Theaux, who won the downhill in Lenzerheide

AFP - After experiencing his first podium this winter, Adrien Theaux has tasted its first victory Wednesday in the final downhill of the season in Lenzerheide, where the Swiss Didier Cuche was removed for the fourth time the World Cup of race queen.

At 26, the Pyrenean lived the emotions of a first podium, first super-G with a second place finish in Beaver Creek in early December, then downhill, with a third place in Kitzbuehel in January. On Wednesday, he felt the thrill of its premiere.

"I could not imagine a finer end of the season," said the skier dismissed in Val Thorens. "These are things we dream since childhood.This is not the world championships, it's a shame, but but it is a very good win. "

Its gently sloping winter allows the speed to find the French mountains. Since the heyday of its Olympic champion Antoine Deneriaz, skiing blue had recorded only one World Cup downhill, that won by Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin in January 2007 in Val d'Isere.

Adrien Theaux had to have a bit of luck in his daily horoscope.

First with the timer, because it is one hundredth that has relegated to second place in the Austrian Joachim Puchner, while Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, vice-Olympic downhill champion, took third place at 16/100e.Then with the sky, which was veiled in passing of the old lions like Didier Cuche and Michael Walchhofer, who disputed the crystal globe.

Especially with the track, steep, curvy and cannot, perfect to express his talents as a technician. "I told him that the track was cut out for him", said Patrice Morisod, the Swiss who has taken over the group velocity two years ago."Now he will kindly understand it can be very good at skiing," said this farmer champions, who led for years Didier Cuche.

The most moving

The Swiss 36-year veteran finished off the podium, but fourth place enabled him to blow the little globe Walchhofer, its Austrian rival, only 11th, and write his name in crystal among the largest ever Downers .

One in the history of downhill skiing is more globes that he, the great Franz Klammer, who won five times in World Cup downhill."It's the world that gives me the greatest emotions, even if the first was special," said Didier Cuche.

His female counterpart, the American Lindsey Vonn had her fourth downhill crystal globe in hand before arriving in Switzerland. As Cuche, the vice-champion of the world remained at the foot of the podium in Lenzerheide, seeing her compatriot Julia Mancuso win again four years after his last success.

But the triple defending the World Cup could be smiling as it took control in the overall standings with that almost got them all winter, Maria Riesch, disappointed not to score any points again Wednesday.

The German, who accuses now 27 points behind, has a super-G, slalom and a giant to reverse the trend."Since the beginning of the season, I was talking about the general at every race. Psychologically, it is experiencing," said the Bavarian, whose two bronze medals at the World Championships could well be his only trophy of the winter.

Egypt: Egyptian journalists are trying to turn their revolution

A journalist's flagship national television driven from Tahrir Square, the editors called for the resignation, an editorial upset overnight ... Egyptian journalists working for state media try, too, to make their revolution.

"During the first 10 days of the protest movement, coverage of events by the Egyptian media has been shameful, denounces Rasha Abdulla, director of Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo, cited by the U.S. daily" The Washington Post. "It was like they were living on another planet."

Since then, things began to change."The change is radical, confirms Wael Qandil, editor of the independent daily" Al-Shourouk. "The editors who spent their time to kowtow to power calling for transparent elections and the official media are now allowed to deal with Muslim Brotherhood members who were previously excluded from the media landscape. "

"The revolution in Al-Ahram!"

In "Rose el-Youssef," one of the four main government dailies, the employees demanded the resignation of their editor, Abdullah Kamal, and managing editor, Karam Gabr.For the second consecutive day, journalists and employees have demonstrated Wednesday in front of the newspaper's headquarters, preventing the executive to join its offices. In "Al-Jumhuriya," another state-run daily, the atmosphere is the same, the editor Ibrahim Ali being disowned by his staff.

Within the daily "Al-Ahram, the most widely distributed in Egypt, the voltage is also keen. According to the website of the newspaper, more than one hundred employees gathered in the lobby on Tuesday, demanding permanent contracts."The revolution throughout Egypt, the revolution of Al-Ahram '!" They chanted, repeating also slogans against corruption but also against the newspaper owners.

Their editor, Omar Saraya has yet made these days a 180 degrees. "Until now, he was a pillar of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak said Tamer Ezzedine, FRANCE 24's correspondent in Cairo. It now shows friendly demonstrators." In a forum, Omar Saraya praised the "nobility" of the revolution, calling on the regime to rapidly implement reforms.

But these last-minute reversals are not always pay.The television star presenter Egyptian Amr Adib, come talk to those camping for more than two weeks in downtown Cairo, was jostled and insulted before being driven from Tahrir Square.

"Take the train"

The journalists of Radio and Television of State, meanwhile, tried to protest on Wednesday to denounce the coverage of recent events on their media. "The gathering could not take place, they were only forty at the headquarters of Radio Television, said Tamer Ezzedine.But several groups have formed on Facebook to say they were not accepting the lies that were disseminated. "

Another journalist in the crosshairs of the profession, Makram Mohammad Ahmad, President of journalists' union. As the responsible official media, he has been appointed by the Head of State. At a demonstration outside the headquarters of the union, members of the organization have called to leave his post. They also allege that the union not to have expressed its solidarity with the Egyptian journalist Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmad, was killed while covering the protests.

According to his wife, Mohamad Ahmad Mahmoud filming clashes from the balcony of his office when security forces shot him, to the head, January 29.He died six days later from his injuries.

To Wael Qandil, if the change in tone is real, it is still too early to speak of genuine freedom of expression. "The state media following the evolution of official discourse, he says, they are just trying to take the train. But those who would use a real freedom of expression are still under attack of power. "

TUNISIA: The interim government is continuing its battle against the former ruling party

AFP - The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi on Monday urged members reunited for the first time since the fall of Ben Ali, to authorize the Interim President to rule by decree-law, bypassing parliament dominated by the former ruling party power.

The battle against the former all-powerful Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) had taken the first step Sunday with the announcement by the Ministry of Interior of the "suspension" of the party before a "dissolution" next.

MPs gathered in front of the palace of Bardo in Tunis headquarters of the Parliament, the prime minister has urged politicians to preserve the achievements of the popular revolution that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14.

A bill to that effect "will enable the Interim President (Fouad Mebazaa) to adopt ordinances pursuant to Article 28 of the Constitution," said the Prime Minister.

"Time is precious.These decree-laws, Tunisia really need to overcome the dangers "threatening the gains of the revolution, insisted Mohammed Ghannouchi.

"There are people who want to return to Tunisia in back, but we must honor our martyrs, who fought for freedom," he said, calling the 125 members present (out of 214 elected members) to adopt the text, expected to rise on Wednesday before the House of Councillors (Senate).

Members should decide in the day on this "bill empowering the president to take interim decree law", according to the unified agenda of the session.

Specifically, the untouchable and all-powerful party under President Ben Ali, who claimed to have 2 million members in a country of 10 million people, has yet no right to organize meetings or rallies, and all its premises are closed.

But many of its cadres are still present in the government and police. The opposition fears that the RCD, the only party that benefited from facilities around the country, only takes all the elections scheduled in six months.A delay also challenged as being too short by many political groups banned under Ben Ali.

This offensive against the RCD operates in a time of great tension in various regions of the country (north, south and center), while the government has to ease the curfew in force since January 12 after a clean sweep at the head of the police.

The recent appointment of 24 new provincial governors are struggling to pass. In several areas, demonstrators demanded their departure just days after taking office because of "RCDisme.

The governor of Gafsa (West Central) has had to leave Sunday its offices under military protection.

Further north, the city of El Kef was a weekend of rioting that people attribute to ochestrées provocations by the RCD. Two people were killed Saturday by a police commissioner, the police building was set on fire twice, and groups of looters have caused panic in the city.