US EditionChile Officially Backs Bachelet Candidacy for UN Top Job
Chile, Brazil, and Mexico unite to support Michelle Bachelet as the UN's first female secretary-general, competing against several Latin American candidates, officials said.
- On 02/02/2026 Chile officially backed Michelle Bachelet's candidacy and will present it jointly with Brazil and Mexico, outgoing President Gabriel Boric announced.
- Last year, Gabriel Boric nominated Michelle Bachelet and she later met Jose Antonio Kast, incoming president of Chile, amid concerns he could block her bid next month.
- Michelle Bachelet, 74, former two-term President of Chile and former UN high commissioner for Human Rights, said after a December meeting with AFP that `the world is ready` for a woman to lead the UN.
- The candidate field includes Rebeca Grynspan, Alicia Barcena, Mia Mottley, and Rafael Grossi, intensifying regional competition for the UN top job.
- This year, as the UN marks its 81st year, the secretary-general post traditionally rotates to Latin America as Antonio Guterres's term ends, highlighting the historic nature of a female candidacy.
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Mexico, Chile and Brazil will nominate former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to head the General Secretariat of the United Nations (UN), reported in a joint statement. The three governments highlighted that the former president has already held high-level positions in the multilateral system as a high-level United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights and executive director of UN Women. The petition was formalized yesterday. “This candidacy…
Backed by Mexico and Brazil, Gabriel Boric, outgoing president of Chile, proposed to former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a harsh criticism of the Jewish state, to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations.Read more
Chile, Mexico and Brazil today officially nominated former Chilean President and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for the position of United Nations Secretary-General, a spokeswoman for the Office of the President of the 80th session of the General Assembly announced.
Michelle Bachelet is a Chilean political and medical surgeon, a militant of the Socialist Party of Chile, with a trajectory that encompasses public health, national defense and high-level positions in international UN organizations. Daughter of a constitutionalist general, her biography is marked by the exile and torture she suffered during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, an experience that decisively influenced her human rights agenda.In …
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