There was no final twist.
Australian Mathias Cormann, 50, will be the next secretary general of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
On June 1, he will succeed Mexican Angel Gurria.
The council of the organization validated, on Monday, the choice of the ambassadors of the 37 member states.
In a final vote on Friday, the former Minister of Finance preceded by a small voice his Swedish rival, Cecilia Malmström, former trade commissioner.
He lacked several support among the 26 European states that make up the organization, especially in Eastern Europe.
When it was created in 1948, the Paris-based institution at Château de la Muette was European, designed to handle aid from the Marshall Plan.
A native of Belgium, in the German-speaking town of Eupen, Mathias Cormann is no stranger to the Old Continent.
He has an original background: until the age of 20, he spoke hardly any English or with a very marked Flemish accent.
Today,
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