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Kristalina Georgieva, the Bulgarian chief executive of the World Bank, has been picked as Europe's choice to lead the IMF after a divisive 14-hour round of voting that split EU capitals and descended into fierce recriminations. After frantic phone call diplomacy in Berlin, Paris, The Hague and Madrid on Friday, Ms Georgieva narrowly won a head-to-head run-off against Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch former chair of the eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers. Ms Georgieva is now favourite to become the next head of the IMF when the fund’s governing board votes on candidates in early October. No other candidates from large emerging economies have declared their candidacy. Under a convention with the US, a European usually leads the IMF and an American national heads the World Bank. Finance ministries in Sweden and the Netherlands initially contested the result because Ms Georgieva failed to meet the complex thresholds set out under EU weighted-voting rules. In a secret ballot Ms Georgieva won the support of 56 per cent of the bloc’s 28 member states, representing 57 per cent of the population of the EU. Mr Dijsselbloem commanded the support of 44 and 43 per cent, respectively, a senior official told the FT. But Ms Georgieva failed to meet the 65 per cent population criterion, leading to challenges from Stockholm and The Hague. But, after two hours of debate over a conference call between ministers on Friday evening, Mr Dijsselbloem conceded defeat. “I congratulate Kristalina Georgieva with the outcome of today’s European votes. I wish her the utmost success”, Mr Dijsselbloem tweeted on Friday night.