Antonio Guterres leads race to become next UN Secretary-General

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres still leads the race to become the next United Nations Secretary-General after a third UN Security Council secret ballot on Monday. Diplomats said that the 15-member council cast a ballot for each of the remaining 10 candidates, and the choices were: encourage, discourage or no



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Guterres received 11 encourage, three discourage and one no opinion. Guterres, who was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015, also won the first two rounds of secret ballots by the Security Council.