New York/Quito – There is a fifth candidate in the race to succeed UN Secretary-General António Guterres: Former Ecuadorian Foreign and Defense Minister María Fernanda Espinosa was proposed by the Caribbean island state of Antigua and Barbuda, as a spokeswoman for the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday (local time) in New York. The 61-year-old Espinosa was President of the UN General Assembly from September 2018 to September 2019.
