PARIS, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said that a Financial Times report that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde plans to leave her job early was a “rumour”.
“I read a rumour about Lagarde, I discovered it, it doesn’t seem an information to me, I’ll leave it to the ECB to comment, but it’s a rumour,” Villeroy, an ECB policymaker, told a French parliamentary committee.
He also repeated his decision to stand down in June, more than a year before the end of his term, was a personal one, adding nobody has asked him to leave.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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