Seven Candidates Compete to Succeed UN Chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres
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\nSeven candidates are competing to become the next United Nations Secretary-General after Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, whose second term ends in 2026.<\/p>\n
In the first informal Security Council poll, Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan emerged as the early leader with 10 \u201cencourage\u201d votes, followed by former Guyanese Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett with nine and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi with seven.<\/p>\n
Other candidates include former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Ecuadorian diplomat Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa, former Senegalese President Macky Sall and Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu.<\/p>\n
Four women are among the candidates, and if one is selected, she would become the first woman to lead the UN since its founding 80 years ago. The Security Council will hold another informal poll on August 21 before making its recommendation to the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Guterres will leave office at the end of 2026 after two terms, with his successor beginning a five-year term on January 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seven Candidates Compete to Succeed UN Chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres ————————————- Seven candidates are competing to become the next United Nations Secretary-General after Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, whose second term ends in 2026. In the first informal Security Council poll, Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan emerged as the early leader with 10 \u201cencourage\u201d votes, followed by former Guyanese …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[8754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"\n