Socialist former president of Chile and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on Sunday she would no longer campaign to replace Antonio Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations.
\n\nBachelet’s bid was troubled in part by her poor performance as high commissioner – in which she famously whitewashed China’s genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic people in East Turkistan – and her own country abandoning support for her bid after a conservative president took office.
\n\nThe former Chilean president published a video on her social media accounts on Sunday announcing that she would no longer campaign for the leadership of the U.N. She did not offer an explanation for doing so, instead pushing back on the idea that a hardline socialist candidacy in a world in which the global right has seen a string of electoral victories was ill-timed.
\n\n“Some may believe that this was not the right time for the kind of candidacy I sought to represent,” she claimed, “at a moment when strong winds are blowing against principles such as multilateralism; against international law, which is being repeatedly violated; against the reality of climate change … and against democracy and human rights, which are…
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