Moved Permanently

To raise to him to the pay its fianc2ee him has cost to Paul Wolfowitz the presidency of the World Bank. After two days of debate, the Executive Council of the instititución has accepted his resignation, that will become effective from next the 30 of June, and that ends weeks of pressures so that it left the position.

The resignation of Wolfowitz has required a long process of negotiation before the demand of this one of which the final official notice recognized that it acted of good faith when deciding the details of the ascent and wage increase of his sentimental companion, Shaha Curly Alí.

The Council has yielded in this point and in the official notice in which he announces that the resignation of Wolfowitz has been accepted he indicates that this one “assured that it acted of ethical form and with good faith in which he believed it was the best interest of the institution and accepted we it”.

The White House, the unique support that it had left to the president of the World Bank, is outstanding through a spokesman that “Paul Wolfowitz is a good man, enthusiastic by the difficulties of the poor men in the world. We would have preferred that remained to the front of the Bank, but the president (George W. Bush) accepts his decision”.

The succession is abre

On the other hand, the official notice of the Council of the Bank indicates that “the process of nomination of a new president will begin immediately”.

It is anticipated that the game of Wolfowitz abra another heated debate on the pact nonwritten that grants to the presidency of the Bank to a American and the direction manager of the International Monetary Fund (FMI) of a European. It seems probable little that the White House wants to change the rules of the game. In the short list of candidates to replace Wolfowitz they appear names like the one of Paul Volcker, the ex- president of the Federal Reserve (EDF), and Stanley Fischer, the present governor of the Bank of Israel, of American nationality.

The woman who made him fall

Shaha Curly, British Ali of Lebanese origin and fianc2ee of Wolfowitz, is, according to its colleagues of the Bank, very a well prepared, ambitious woman, lasts, intelligent and with good contacts. He is Muslim secular, very discreet and little it blankets of the maquillaje and jewels.

It curls, that worked for the World Bank when Wolfowitz assumed the presidency in June of the 2005, was transladada to the Department of State to avoid an interest conflict, but it followed in the list of the World Bank.

A report of the published VM Monday concludes that the increase that it perceived Curly at the request of the president of the VM - of 133,000 dollars to 180,000, 193,590 after the first revision “surpassed the rank” stipulated by the norms of the institution.

Although Wolfowitz has recognized that its decision to determine the details of the labor conditions of its fianc2ee was an error, her sentimental companion maintains that she was a victim and who left the financial institution against its will.