World Bank presidential election, 2012 | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_World_Bank_Group_presidential_election


00:00:46 1 Background
00:02:16 2 Electorate
00:03:16 3 Candidates
00:04:26 4 Campaign
00:07:59 4.1 Nomination reactions
00:09:36 4.2 Meritocracy arguments
00:10:37 5 Result
00:12:17 5.1 Reactions



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An indirect presidential election was held on 16 April 2012 to choose a new president of the World Bank Group to replace Robert Zoellick, whose term expired in June. Although the organisation has always had presidents from, and nominated by, the United States, this election featured the nomination of two non-United States candidates for the first time, originating, respectively, from Nigeria and Colombia. Though the Colombian José Antonio Ocampo withdrew his candidacy in the final stages, the Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala remained in the race.  Eventually, and amid controversy, the U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim was announced as the new president on 16 April.