New YorkAll 7 UN chief candidates drew a veto-holder’s thumbs-down.
A candidate needs 9 of 15 council votes and no veto from the 5 powers.
Friday’s poll used red ballots to mark the 5 powers’ votes, and frontrunner Rebeca Grynspan drew 2 red discouragements.
Macky Sall withdrew Saturday, and a red-ballot poll next week tests the remaining six.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- U.S. News & World Report
- reports the red-ballot first, showing which of the five veto powers voted, and that all three leaders drew two red discourage votes
- The Star
- Vanguard
- reports Macky Sall's withdrawal and his hint of a Latin America-Caribbean consensus pick, plus Mladenov and Nusseibeh as possible late entrants
- AsiaOne
- adds the US officials' view that no candidate suits the Trump administration, and the Grynspan/Grossi/Birkett vote counts
Sources: U.S. News & World Report, The Star, Vanguard, AsiaOne