The key facts

  • Russian Foreign Ministry: after the voting rounds, none of the Latin American candidates is leading
  • Earlier, the UN Security Council failed to agree on a candidate for the new Secretary-General
  • WSJ reported that the US administration considers Orban a suitable candidate

The race for UN Secretary-General has not produced a frontrunner

None of the Latin American candidates for UN Secretary-General managed to pull ahead in the completed rounds of voting. This was stated by Kirill Logvinov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for international organizations, as quoted by TASS.

Context of the campaign

This statement came against the backdrop of the fact that the UN Security Council had earlier failed to agree on a candidate for the new Secretary-General, meaning no choice has been made yet. The campaign is also complicated by the emergence of unconventional figures: The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported that the US administration considers former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a suitable candidate — according to sources, the former head of the Hungarian government adheres to the Minister of State Lana Zaki Nusseibeh.