For those reasons, democratic reform of the IMF has been high on the agenda of progressives internationally, and the Greens have been advocates for democratic reform of the voting rights in the IMF. As has been stated earlier, the basic situation at the moment is the United States retains a veto over decision making at the IMF because it holds 16 percent of the voting rights and essentially you need more than 85 percent to get a decision through. So the United States has retained its veto rights.