An eleventh-hour, unofficial candidate threatens to destabilise the contest.
Hopes that the UN might appoint its first woman Secretary-General are about to be dealt a potentially fatal blow, if rumours that began circulating in New York at the end of last week are anything to go by. Experienced UN reporters claimed on Friday that Hungary, Latvia and Croatia, with the encouragement of Germany, are preparing to nominate European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva (pictured) as a surprise late entry to the race. The following day, media outlets in Georgieva’s native Bulgaria reported that the government in Sofia would this …read more
Source: New Statesman
