Posted on 07/11/2007 1:14:25 AM PDT by bd476
WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland will put forward former prime minister Marek Belka as a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, Warsaw's finance ministry said in a statement today.
A meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels has so far failed to generate a clear candidate to take over at one of the world's two big non-governmental financial institutions.
'In Brussels today, a representative of the finance ministry will officially support the candidacy of Marek Belka for chief of the International Monetary Fund,' ministry spokesman Jakub Lutyk said in a statement.
A source with the EU's Portuguese presidency told Thomson Financial News yesterday that EU finance ministers would discuss the appointment but were unlikely to agree on a candidate to head the fund during their monthly meeting today.
Belka, an economist who has also spent two terms as Polish finance minister, headed a minority technocrat cabinet for more than a year before elections in 2005 brought the current ruling conservative administration to power.
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Yes. French guy already got that job.
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