Lagarde has G8 backing; hits back at inquiry call

[Viking 1]

Source: Reuters

G8 leaders all back French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's bid to run the IMF, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday, as the candidate attacked a call to investigate her role in a 2008 legal case that may harm her chances.

France was careful not to speak out about Lagarde's candidacy during a Group of Eight summit in Deauville last week but Juppe said all eight nations were firmly behind Lagarde.

"Among the eight heads of state and government, plus the president of the European Commission and the president of the European Council who were there, there was unanimous support for Christine Lagarde," Juppe said on Canal+ television.

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The United States on Sunday stuck with its policy of not announcing support for a specific candidate.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/30/us-france-lagarde-idUSTRE74S17X20110530

[JDPriestly]

1. LaGarde is from Sarkozy's cabinet. Of course.

I think that LaGarde was in the movie Inside Job.