French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde Favorite for IMF Top Job After Resignation from Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accused of Attempted Rape of Muslim Maid at Sofitel Hotel

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, leading contender for IMF top job after disgraced financier Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrested for attempt rape of Sofitel hotel maid, though legal woes may derail her chances.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde

Disgraced French financier Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned effective immediately from his cushy job as IMF chief in the wake of the attempted rape of a Muslim Sofitel employee. French finance minister Christine Lagarde is a leading candidate for the position. Yeah, maybe a woman will bring back the respect the officer lost with the "Great Seducer" in charge. Still, some are saying her chances may be KO'd by a legal inquiry, but I am pretty sure nothing she has done would rise to the level of what Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been accused of doing.

And now it is helping to make Ms. Lagarde, 55, perhaps the leading candidate to succeed her friend and colleague Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund....

Another of Ms. Lagarde’s selling points, though, may be one not listed on her résumé. “What’s happened with Strauss-Kahn underscores how great it would be to have a woman in the role,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a former I.M.F. chief economist who is now a professor at Harvard University. If she gets the post, Ms. Lagarde would be the first woman to run the I.M.F. — or any large international financial institution, for that matter. Source

All I know is that time has come for a new flavor for the IMF. Enough of the white haired white male dominating the organization, that has wreaked havoc on the balance sheets of many countries, including the land of my birth, Jamaica. IMF rules and regulations made life hard for many Jamaicans.