Ms Lagarde threw her hat into the ring during an appearance on French television.
Her term in office expires on 5 July and the process to find a successor opened on Wednesday.
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has already said he is "delighted to nominate" her for a new term.
She has also received the backing of Germany, China, France and Korea.
Last
month, Ms Lagarde was ordered to stand trial in France for alleged
negligence over a compensation payment to a top businessman, Bernard
Tapie. She approved the payment in 2008 when she was French finance
minister.
However, Ms Lagarde's lawyer described the decision to
make her stand trial as "incomprehensible", and said the IMF boss would
appeal.
Despite this controversy, commentators say she has no obvious challengers for the job.
No comments:
Post a Comment