Dominique Strauss-Kahn: poll shows Socialist Party could still win French election - Telegraph.co.uk

The poll found that former Socialist party leader Francois Hollande would be the new favourite candidate on the left, 10 points ahead of current party boss Martine Aubry.

It predicted that either candidate would score 23 percent in the first round of the election, with Sarkozy one point behind Hollande or level with Aubry, and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in third place at 20 percent.

Compared with a CSA poll on April 28, that indicates a one or two point gain for Mr Sarkozy from the Strauss-Kahn affair. The poll of 1,007 people also found that 57 per cent of those questioned believed the sex assault case might have been a set-up to frame Strauss-Kahn by his enemies.