Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan has regained the lead in the race to become the next U.N. secretary-general, winning the minimum nine votes needed for a Security Council recommendation but leaving unresolved the decisive question of whether she can avoid a veto by any of the council's five permanent members.
Grynspan received nine “encourage” votes, five “discourage” votes and one “no opinion” in the council's third secret straw poll on Friday, according to results obtained by news organizations and the 1 for 8 Billion campaign. Guyana's Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett followed with eight encourage votes, six discourage votes and one no opinion. Reuters independently reported the same results.
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