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Rebeca Grynspan maintains the leadership in voting for the UN leadership but increases the countries that reject it
Argentinean Grossi to advance Guyanese Rodriguez-Birkett in the fifth informal ballot to elect Guterres' substitute
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Rebeca Grynspan moves away from other candidates in the UN leadership race in the fourth informal vote
Guyanese Rodriguez-Birkett is again second in a consultation where the vote of the five major Security Council members is still unknown, who end up deciding the outcome.
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Guterres says goodbye to the UN and opens the race for the new general secretariat
On 22 September, António Guterres presented his last speech as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Guterres succeeded in the post of South Korean Ban Ki-moon in 2016, following a historic process that, for the first time, included public hearings and discussions among the candidates. Now, the career for the secretariat is disputed between Rebeca Grynspan, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Olara Otunnu, among others.
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Rebeca Grynspan wins the last informal vote to lead the UN, followed by Carolyn Rodriguez-Birkett
The candidates from Costa Rica and Guyana distance themselves from the rest of the candidates to replace Guterres in a career that is still open and can still be added to some name