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As expected, the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) elected Mauricio J. Claver-Carone as the new head of the multilateral organization, the most relevant in the region.
It should be remembered that Claver-Carone, Donald Trump’s henchman, arrived as the only candidate in the elections.
The new head of the entity will take office on October 1, 2020, for a period of five years, ending the era of Colombian Luis Alberto Moreno. that was 15 years.
Claver-Carone will be responsible for the operations of the IDB Group, which is made up of the IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab.
With this step, it is the first time that an American has been in charge of the bank that lends more than US $ 10 billion per year for social and infrastructure programs in the region, and whose headquarters are in Washington.
Chile, which had asked to postpone the elections and opposed the candidacy of the Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the US National Security Council, said he abstained from voting.
“The Government of Chile, through the Minister of Finance in his capacity as Governor before the institution, decided to abstain from voting, the path followed by a total of 16 countries that represent 31.23% of the voting power of the IDB”, Teatinos 120 said in a statement.
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The document recalled that Chile considered it prudent to postpone the election “in the context of the serious pandemic that plagues the world and the region and that has demanded that all our governments concentrate their actions on combating its health, economic and social effects.”
To be elected President, a candidate must receive the majority of the total votes of the IDB member countries, as well as the support of at least 15 of the 28 regional member countries (26 borrowing member countries, plus Canada and the United States). ). The IDB has a total of 48 member countries and has offices in all borrowing countries, as well as in Europe and Asia.
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