00:01eurozone countries have until friday to put forward candidates to succeed christine lagarde
00:07as president of the european central bank the bloc's finance ministers will review the names
00:13at a meeting on november 9th a spokesperson for the europe group told euronews a candidate will
00:20need the backing of at least 16 of the 21 eurozone countries representing at least 65 percent of the
00:27bloc's population eu leaders then make the final call lagarde announced last week that she was
00:34cutting her eight-year term short by almost nine months she said that leaving would give her the
00:40freedom to speak out beyond monetary policy rumors throughout the year have linked her timing to the
00:46elections in france as an early exit gives french president emmanuel macron and german chancellor
00:52friedrich merz a say over who replaces her while the far-right polls strongly ahead of the april vote
00:59the two names leading the race for the ecb top job are pablo hernandez de cos general manager of the
01:06bank for international settlements and former governor of the bank of spain from 2018 to 2024
01:13and kalash cannot who led the dutch central bank for 14 years until 2025
