On Sunday, French politicians and media met news of his arrest in New York for alleged sexual aggression with stunned disbelief and expressions of national humiliation. The incident threw Mr. Strauss-Kahn's political party, the Socialists, into confusion and set the stage for a new political calculus that could allow the National Front, the far-right party led by its founder's daughter, Marine Le Pen, to become a more dominant force during the election campaign.
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