This was done with a razor's edge, by a "small majority", according to various sources.
The Australian Mathias Cormann, former finance minister, is on track to be the next secretary general of the OECD, the organization for economic cooperation and development, based in Paris.
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He won the vote on Friday morning of the ambassadors of the 37 Member States against the Swedish candidate, Cecilia Malmström, former European trade commissioner.
And this at the end of a long selection process, from an initial list of ten applicants, including a majority of Europeans and a close friend of Donald Trump who gave up after the defeat of the American president against Joe Biden.
However, Thursday evening again, nothing was played.
In a first round of voting, the two candidates for the succession of Mexican Angel Gurria, in office since 2006, arrived at a strict equality, meaning that one or more countries had abstained.
The elbow-to-elbow gave rise to intense negotiations and tensions,
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