Africa: World Bank President Election Process Questioned

16 April 2012

Johannesburg — As directors of the World Bank are set to meet later today to make a decision on who the body's next president will be, doubt in the transparency of the process has emerged.

Speaking to journalists at Foreign Correspondents' Association breakfast meeting in Johannesburg on Monday Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said the organisation has passed the test of openness in the sense that anybody could nominate anybody for the presidency.

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