Chile's Bachelet Quits Race to Be Next UN Chief
She withdrew after receiving 1 encourage vote and 11 discourage votes in the Security Council straw poll, ending a bid backed by Chile, Brazil and Mexico.
- On Saturday, Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean President, withdrew her bid for United Nations secretary-general after the Security Council's third informal straw poll returned 11 'discourage' votes against her candidacy.
- UN Watch led a diplomatic campaign scrutinizing Bachelet's four-year human rights record, issuing an 11-question open letter to Security Council missions in May that detailed concerns about her tenure.
- Documentation presented by UN Watch highlighted Bachelet's delayed Xinjiang assessment and silence on mass Uyghur detentions, while noting she initiated fewer stand-alone criticisms of Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship than of the United States.
- Bachelet's exit leaves four women and three men competing to succeed Antonio Guterres, current UN chief, with Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan and Guyanese ex-foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett currently leading.
- No woman has led the United Nations in its 80-year history, and only one Latin American has served as secretary-general, while Guterres warned that geopolitical divides among major powers have left the body deadlocked on Gaza and Ukraine.
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Michelle Bachelet believes she contributed to the spread of the belief that a woman from Latin America should succeed Antonio Guterres.
Chilean Michelle Bachelet withdraws her candidacy after disappointing trial votes. Three Latin American women remain in the race for the highest office of the United Nations.
The former President of Chile, Michel Bachelet, announced yesterday evening, Saturday, that her candidacy for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations had been withdrawn, stressing that her candidacy had contributed to the debate on the need for a Latin American woman to take the lead in the international organization.
After finishing in the penultimate place among the candidates, Michelle Bachelet leaves the contest to lead the United Nations.
"I don't regret taking on this great challenge," Bachelet said. He warned that strong winds are blowing against multilateralism and international law, against the reality of climate change and against democracy and human rights.
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