WHO Director-General re-elected
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as Director General of the World Health Organization in a secret ballot today with 155/160 votes in favor.
“World Health Organization (WHO) member countries today continue to elect Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for a second five-year term as Director General of the world’s leading public health agency. “, announced on the website of WHO there is a paragraph today.
The secret ballot is considered a formality, because Mr. Tedros is the only candidate running. Mr. Tedros was first elected as the Director-General of WHO in 2017.
“I’m really touched to have such great support,” Tedros said after being re-elected. “This recognition is not only for me, but I believe it is for the whole WHO. I am really proud to be a part of WHO.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a news conference at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2021. Image: AFP.
Ministers and delegates congratulated Mr. Tedros, who has steered WHO through the tumultuous phase of the pandemic. Covid-19. In today’s Twitter post, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said the election results were “totally deserved”.
Tedros’s new term officially begins on August 16. The WHO Director-General is only allowed to be re-elected once in accordance with the provisions of the World Health Assembly.
Before being elected WHO director-general in 2017, Tedros served as Ethiopia’s health minister from 2005 to 2012 and foreign minister from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as Chairman of the Partnership Council on Relapsing Malaria and Co-Chair of the Partnership Council on Maternal Health, infants and children.
Thanh Tam (According to Reuters, AFP)
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