Two-thirds of French people do not want Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand to resign for having written about paying young male prostitutes for sex in Thailand,an opinion poll shows.
Mr Mitterrand has rejected calls to quit, sparked by revelations in his 2005 autobiography,The Bad Life , and said the male prostitutes were consenting adults.
The French government has also come out to support him.
The controversy surfaced after Mr Mitterrand defended film-maker Roman Polanski, who faces extradition from Switzerland to the US for having had sex with a 13-yearold girl in 1977.
Both the far-right National Front party and main Socialist opposition party said he should step down.
However,67% of French people do not want Mr Mitterrand to resign, against 20% who think he should, according to the survey of 1,005 people carried out by pollster BVA on Oct 9-10, and released yesterday.
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No one believes this poll, it is done by BVA a polling agency notorious close to Sarkozy, no one knows what questions were asked prior to the one reported (this can easily influence the answers).
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