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. The block of the EU supports the French finance minister, Christine Lagarde, who has the backing of Angela Merkel
Among the emerging countries there is no such unity, but Mexico has already submitted a candidate and others like Chile are inclined to do so in the coming das
Christine Lagarde today in Paris. /
Lagarde said that talk of his candidacy "is premature"
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, has considered, everquest 2 platinum, "premature" to discuss his possible candidacy as director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of sexual agresin .
"Say it is an interesting question, but it is clearly premature," said Lagarde told the CNBC when asked if it accepted the post of IMF managing director if it, buying runescape gold, were offered.
Despite refusing to confirm his candidacy, the French minister argued that this process must be "open, transparent and based on the Merit" yaadi that "it is always nice to be wanted," as Victor Hugo once said . "He said 'I love being loved', but we're not talking about it. We are talking about trying to find appropriate solutions to the, eve isk for sale, current situation" had an impact.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today started the formal process to choose a successor to resigned managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn with a battle between Europe and major emerging countries. The agency announced on Friday that the process of selection of a new managing director to be "open, transparent and based on Merit." That promise put an end to secrecy that has surrounded the designacin the responsible agency, headed by a European since its creation in 1945 under a gentlemen's agreement that grants the President of the World Bank (WB) to an American.
The beginning of the process is marked by a struggle between Europe and major emerging countries, who believe that it is time that a representative of the developing world to lead the IMF. The Old Continent is united around the French finance minister, Christine Lagarde, who received support during the weekend of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Brits, George Osborne, who described as "outstanding candidate."
A sum them Monday Dutchman Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager, who said Lagarde est "extremely prepared" to replace Strauss-Kahn, who resigned May 19 after being charged with seven charges and attempted sexual agresin Violation of a hotel employee in New York, where he lives under house arrest. Four of the ten IMF managing directors have been French: Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Jacques de Larosire, Michel Camdessus and Strauss-Kahn, who led the institution for 36 of its 65 years of operation. The Belgian press said today that Finance Minister Didier Reynders, opt for the post if Lagarde is affected by a pending legal case in your country related to the entrepreneur Bernard Tapie indemnification from the sale of Adidas in 1993. Lagarde, 55 years, he worked as a lawyer in the U.S. for 20 years. Europe argues that the serious crisis being experienced by several countries of the region requires that the IMF est captained by a European.
From the emerging world captures the attention the governor of the Bank of Mexico, Agustin Carstens, today formally nominated by his country to fill the IMF management and who called emerging countries to " not atomic "and" support a unique candidate. "Carstens, the first Latin American to aspire to succeed Strauss-Kahn, is ranked" number two "of the IMF from 2003 to 2006.Chile also has advanced studying the possibility of opposition candidates and the Christian Democratic plant to the government on Friday formally postulating the former Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley.
Kazakh Candidate
They were very Grigori Mrchenko, National Bank governor Kazajistn, who was backed on Thursday as a candidate for IMF managing direction by Russia and the other ten members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Mrchenko today opened a consultation process in the BRIC passes as it is known to block composed of the main emerging markets: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
"If the big passes in development may present a unique candidate, and not necessarily must be me, then that person will have many opportunities to win," the candidate aadi Kazakh. Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said today that his country will propose that the final successor Strauss-Kahn is elected in 2012, when it will end its mandate, and in the meantime to appoint an interim successor. The process for nominations remain open until 10 June. Once nominations are received, the Executive Committee, composed of 24 members representing the 187 passes that make up the IMF will make PUBLIC a list of three names. Executive Council members entrevistarna candidates to lead the IMF in Washington and elegirn June 30, one of them after weighing "their strengths."
Strauss-Kahn took the reins of the IMF in September 2007 when he replaced the Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, the job you left behind nearly two years before it concluded its mandate citing "personal reasons." The managing director resigned francs said in an internal mail addressed to employees of the Fund has now come to light that he was forced to resign, despite being declared innocent, so that neither the IMF nor his colleagues could share her " personal nightmare. " The IMF granted the last year the figure rcord of 91,700 million dollars in loan.