António Guterres is elected new UN Secretary General
I have to say I did not expect them to make a final decision today and so I felt a good bike ride would clear my head before unpicking the next round of voting. So one of the lessons for today is do not go on a bike ride while they are having the straw poll for the next UN Secretary General. First the good news António Guterres is a very good candidate for UN Secretary General he becomes the first former Prime Minister to take the position. He was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and he also brings with it an understanding of the UN from his time as he served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. Finally he is a left of center politician having served as President of Socialist International . He had led the voting since the beginning of the straw polls and today was elected with 13 encourage and 2 no views and then under the Russian Presidency of the Security Council they reached consensus on A...