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Secret votes and vetoes: How will the next UN chief be picked?
With no frontrunner for the job, eight candidates are vying for the UN Security Council’s recommendation.
Summary
With no frontrunner for the job, eight candidates are vying for the UN Security Council’s recommendation. Secret votes, coloured ballot papers, straw polls and backroom efforts to force a consensus — with the threat of powerful vetoes hanging over it all. These could be the contours of how boards of mubil-billion dollar corporations decide on contentious issues.
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