Sarkozy backs Strauss-Kahn to head IMF

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PARIS, July 8 (AFP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published yesterday he will support the candidacy of former socialist minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The announcement was the latest move in the centre-right president's policy of endorsing top socialists, including naming several to his government.
Strauss-Kahn "seemed to me to be the most capable candidate for this job," Sarkozy said in an interview on the website of the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
He said he had already presented the former finance minister's candidacy to the prime ministers of Spain, Italy and Britain and to US President George W Bush.
"To obtain this post, you need someone who has strong credibility, and unquestionable experience, and to be polyglot. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has these qualities. He and I have the same vision of the functioning of the IMF," Sarkozy told the weekly newspaper.