United Nations - The UN Security Council held on Monday its third secret consultation before the election of the next secretary general of the organization, a race which for now is led by Portuguese António Guterres.
The former prime minister of Portugal who was more backrests obtained in the first two such consultations, held on 21 July and 5 August.
In the most recent, Guterres obtained the support of 11 countries, the vote against two and two abstentions and has established itself as the favorite to succeed Ban Ki-moon.
Behind him stood the Serbian Vuk Jeremic and the Argentine Foreign Minister, Susana Malcorra.
Both got eight backrests, with Jeremic accumulating four votes against and three abstentions and Malcorra getting six against and one abstention.
The other Latin American candidate, the Costa Rican Christiana Figueres, received five votes in favor, eight against and two abstentions.
In total, there are ten personalities who follow contributing to the UN chief after the withdrawals of Croatia Vesna Pusic and Montenegro Igor Luksic after the first and the second query, respectively.
The expectation is that candidates poorly positioned in the next polls follow throwing in the towel and paving the way for that, finally, the Security Council identifies a consensus name.
The consultation on Monday will be similar to the previous two, but it is likely that the following are identified with a different color ballots of the five permanent members of the Security Council (United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom).
Since they all have the right of veto, its position is crucial in choosing the next secretary-general, to be proposed by the Council and then ratified by the General Assembly.
Voting in the Security Council are strictly confidential and the results are officially announced, although so far the leaks have not been slow to happen.
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