Chile's Bachelet Quits Race to Be Next UN Chief
She ended her campaign after the Security Council gave her 1 encourage vote and 11 discourage votes, leaving the Latin America rotation race in doubt.
- On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet withdrew her candidacy for United Nations secretary-general after receiving one 'encourage' vote and 11 'discourage' votes in the Security Council's third informal straw poll held on Friday.
- UN Watch led a formal campaign scrutinizing Bachelet's four-year human rights record, sending an 11-question letter to Security Council missions documenting her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- The group's findings cited failures to issue stand-alone statements on China's mass detention of Uyghurs, as well as delayed responses to imprisonment of dissidents in Russia and Venezuela.
- Bachelet's exit leaves seven candidates in the race to succeed 77-year-old Antonio Guterres, who completes his term on December 31, with frontrunners Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica and Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett of Guyana.
- No woman has led the United Nations in its 80-year history, and only one Latin American, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, has served as secretary-general, illustrating persistent barriers to breaking established patterns.
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Chile’s Bachelet quits race to be next UN chief
Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet on Saturday withdrew her candidacy for the position of UN secretary-general, weeks after a straw poll showed her in second to last place among eight candidates.“Today I announced that I have decided not to continue with my candidacy for the position of secr
The candidacy of the Chilean ex-mandataria was losing support in the last non-binding votes of the multilateral body
By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced this Saturday the end of her candidacy for the General Secretariat of the United Nations (UN), after remaining among the last positions in Friday's consultation round.The ex-mandator confirmed the decision in a video on her Instagram account
Chile's former President Michelle Bachelet has withdrawn her candidacy for the position of UN Secretary-General.
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced that she is withdrawing from the race to be the next UN Secretary-General. Her decision comes after a third informal vote in the Security Council, in which her candidacy received just one vote in favor, 11 against and three abstentions. Bachelet, a two-time president of Chile and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced her decision in a video on social media. She said she h…
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