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| (Oct. 12, 2016 - Source: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America) Guterres with Ban Ki-moon |
As the term of the current UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, comes to an end possible successors have come forward.
The process for selecting a new Secretary General takes
place within the UN Security Council of the P5 (the United States, France, the
United Kingdom, Russia, and China) the victors of WWII, where several straw
polls establishes consensus.
The tops three delegate
names that came from the most recent poll are António Guterres of Portugal,
Miroslav Lajčák of Slovakia, and Vuk Jeremić of Serbia. These names represent a
wide range of strong leadership to experienced public service, however there was anticipation
of a female UN Secretary General successor.
In the more than seventy
years of existence, the UN has not had a female Secretary General. As the
leader of these polls designate who will follow
Ban Ki Moon, the results suggest António Guterres will be the next UN Secretary
General. Guterres is the former prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002), and the
United Nations high commissioner for refugees (2005-2015).
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