The governments of the European Union, which had given themselves until the end of July to nominate a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have not yet managed to agree on a name for succeed this fall to Christine Lagarde. His second five-year term ran until July 2021.
"At this point, although some candidates gather more support than others, there is still no complete consensus around a name," said Thursday, August 1, the French Ministry of Finance.
Five candidates are in the running: Spanish Finance Minister Nadia Calvino and her Portuguese counterpart Mario Centeno, also president of the Eurogroup, Dutchman Jeroen Dijsselbloem and the governor of the Bank of Finland Olli Rehn, as well as a candidate Eastern country, Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva, currently number 2 of the World Bank.
The ministers of the 28, who consulted each other on a conference call on Thursday, "have agreed to proceed to several rounds of voting, if necessary, on Friday, to choose the European candidate", which has every chance of to succeed Christine Lagarde, leaving for the European Central Bank, according to a source close to the French Ministry of Finance.
Due to the change of government in the UK, Bruno Le Maire, coordinator of the European efforts in the matter, "agreed to postpone the launch of the voting procedure until tomorrow, August 2nd, in the morning, to give the British time. to present a candidate by tonight, if they wish, "Delcare the same source.
Two weeks ago, at the G7 Finance meeting in Chantilly (Oise), north of Paris, the Minister of Finance, Bruno Le Maire, was instructed by his European colleagues to lead the discussions to appoint a European candidate.
With AFP