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La administración abre la puerta en la dimisión de Wolfowitz
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Steven R. Weisman
La administración de Bush, estrategia que cambia de puesto frente a la oposición del montaje a Paul D. Wolfowitz como presidente del banco mundial, abierto la puerta martes en la posibilidad de su dimisión voluntaria si el tablero del banco terminó su impulsión para declararlo impropio permanecer en oficina.
Pero el nuevo acercamiento de la administración - contorneado en una llamada de conferencia de teléfono entre el departamento del Hacienda en Washington y los ministerios económicos en Japón, Canadá y Europa - aparecía ganar pocos partidarios inmediatos, varios funcionarios dichos.
Indeed, bank officials said the board seemed determined on Tuesday evening to endorse the findings of a special committee that Wolfowitz broke bank rules, ethics and governance standards in arranging for, and concealing, a pay and promotion package for his companion, Shaha Ali Riza, in 2005.
The officials said the 52-page report of the committee, released Monday evening, had emboldened Wolfowitz’s critics on the board and made it difficult for the board to avoid concluding that he could no longer lead the institution.
Late in the day on Tuesday, Wolfowitz made a personal and impassioned appeal to the bank board at a private meeting, seeking to stave off what some said was an inevitable rebuke.
According to a text made available by a supporter, he warned that a vote of no confidence in his leadership, tantamount to requesting his ouster, “has the potential to do greater long-term damage to the institution” than any conflict of interest he may have failed to avoid.
Declaring that he had been “held up to public ridicule” and “caricatured as a ‘boyfriend’ who used his position of power to help his ‘girlfriend,”‘ Wolfowitz said that “for the sake of the bank, and for your sake, this process has to be fair.”
He promised to change his management approach by relying less on advisers from the Bush administration, restructuring his office, delegating more to career managers and placing “more trust in the staff,” according to the text.
“I implore each of you to be fair in making your decision, because your decision will not only affect my life, it will affect how this institution is viewed in the United States and the world,” he said. This was an apparent reference to criticism of the bank among American conservatives and fears of Congress cutting off financing for the bank.
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