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Bachelet Concedes Difficulty of Her UN Bid: “I Know I'm Not Going to Be Secretary-General”

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Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet acknowledged on Thursday the difficulties facing her candidacy for United Nations secretary-general. Asked at a public event in Santiago why she wants to lead the organization, she replied in a light tone: 'That's what I ask myself. Perhaps because I know I'm not going to be secretary-general.'

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Santiago. Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile who, with the support of the governments of Mexico and Brazil, launched her candidacy to lead the United Nations (UN), admitted yesterday, even with irony, that she will not be elected as secretary general of the body given the evidence of the bad results she obtained so far in the informal consultations of the Security Council.

·Mexico
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The former Chilean president obtained only two endorsements in the last poll of the Security Council and referents of the ruling party believe that she should step aside to preserve her leadership

·Vicente López, Argentina
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Former President Michelle Bachelet acknowledged that she believes she will not be elected as Secretary General of the United Nations, in the midst of the unfavorable questions and results that she has obtained in the informal polls of the Security Council. The ex-mandator approached the stage with humor during a conversation during her participation in the meeting ... Continue reading "Michelle Bachelet and her difficult career to reach the UN: …

·Concepción, Chile
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The two-time president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, answered this Thursday to the question of why she wants to be secretary general of the United Nations, between laughs. “Perhaps because I know that I am not going to be secretary general,” she said in a jockey tone, but that she gave an account of the bathroom of reality that passes through her candidacy after leaving seventh among the eight candidates in the second informal vote of the Securit…

·Madrid, Spain
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The former Chilean president made these statements during her participation in the meeting “Migration: Challenges for the World, Latin America and Chile”, organized by the UDP. This, in the midst of the harsh moment of her crusade, following the first informal polls of the United Nations Security Council.

·Las Condes, Chile
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CNN Chile broke the news on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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