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Paris, Oct 19.- The Government of France, who did not want to comment on the investigation for abuse of power of the director-manager of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, praised his performance before the financial crisis.

The spokesman of the French Government, Luc Chatel, stressed that “Strauss-Kahn has demonstrated, throughout the course of this crisis, which was the height of the events.”

“He took the full extent of its role in recent weeks,” was “a man of the situation,” he added Chatel, who said that the IMF would be “a very important role in the coming months.”

On the investigation, the spokesman merely stated that “in ten days we will see if there was abuse of power or not.”

The American newspaper “The Wall Street Journal” revealed yesterday that the IMF had opened an investigation into whether Strauss-Kahn detrminar abused his office when kept in an extramarital relationship with a subordinate at the beginning of the year.

Strauss-Kahn has not yet been questioned, which, according to sources close to him said today by the French newspaper “Le Journal du Dimanche,” probably will not be needed because the statements of the woman with whom he was related, Piroska Nagy, discard the hypothesis Managing-director of the IMF have made use of influence peddling.

According to these sources, the leak in the press yesterday was an attempt to create a scandal because “there is nothing politically” that can disapprove the “number one” of the IMF, in post since November 2007. EFE