Gadhafi funding claim weighs on French campaign

Sarkozy also dismissed suggestions that his conservative party UMP helped discredit former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Strauss-Kahn was considered the leading presidential hopeful a year ago but was then arrested and charged with assaulting a New York hotel maid. The charges were later dropped. A report in the London-based Guardian newspaper says Strauss-Kahn believes his political opponents sabotaged him.

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Cecile Brisson and Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Johanna Decorse in Toulouse contributed to this report.

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