French election: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife dropped from coverage Former IMF boss Mr Strauss-Kahn, himself once tipped to win France's presidential vote, embarrassed the Socialist party with the publication over the weekend of his allegation that Nicolas Sarkozy orchestrated his downfall. "Faced with the emotive and irrational climate of the second round campaign, particularly over the last week, it has been jointly decided to push this collaboration back," Huffington Post France's editor Paul Ackermann said. The charges were later dropped but a New York judge ruled on Tuesday that he should face a civil case brought by Diallo. "The serenity was gone, what with the affair kicking off again this weekend," BFM-TV's boss Guillaume Dubois said of the decision to drop Ms Sinclair, who took part in April 22 first round coverage as a consultant. "It was better for everyone for her not to be present on Sunday evening, in the interest of both parties," Dubois said ahead of the May 6 run-off.