5th Straw poll for the next UN Secretary General
We are down to nine candidates with Christiana Figueres withdrawal. As you can see from the votes above Antonio Guterres remains the favorite for the new Secretary General. As you will have seen from my previous blogs on the subject though I think he has an excellent cv for the job he isn’t a woman nor one from the Eastern UN region -- whose turn it is. Although this rotation between regions has been an informal agreement it makes sense that the different regions of the world should have a turn to be UN Secretary General. It fits in with the universal nature of the organization and ensures different cultural interpretations of the job. If you have regional rotation, then the Western Europe and Other Group region have their turn next ( Antonio Guterres is from a WEOG countr y) as the Secretary General after this. The backdrop to this fifth straw poll is there is another candidate being promoted by some of the western European countries and that is Kristalina Georgi...