I know we are to be engaging in as much Sarko-bashing as possible here, but this simply isn't true. Nominations among EU member states for head of the IMF come precisely from EU member states. You can't just nominate yourself, you need to be nominated by a member state. And, while it's true DSK could have gotten nominated by another EU member state (Spain?) this isn't actually how it happen, as DSK's nomination was introduced by France, and at the time the job came up, Sarkozy was President, and Sarkozy did the nomination. He was quite actively pushing it at the time as well.

And he certainly got press time for it.

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