{"id":1238490,"date":"2022-01-25T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1238490"},"modified":"2022-01-25T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:52:41","slug":"secret-ballot-w-h-o-chief-tedros-to-be-returned-unopposed-for-fresh-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-ballot-w-h-o-chief-tedros-to-be-returned-unopposed-for-fresh-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Ballot: W.H.O. Chief Tedros to Be Returned Unopposed for Fresh Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecret-ballot-w-h-o-chief-tedros-to-be-returned-unopposed-for-fresh-term%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1238490&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief&nbsp;Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is set to be re-appointed via a secret ballot \u2013 standing for the role unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>The W.H.O.\u2019s first African leader, Tedros is a career bureaucrat with no medical background but is guaranteed to return to the position he has held since 2017.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tedros will most likely be validated through a secret ballot vote held on Tuesday the 25th of January 2022, by the W.H.O.\u2019s executive board, followed by a confirmation in May 2022 by the 194 W.H.O. member states,&nbsp;<em>France 24<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220125-tedros-in-one-man-race-to-remain-at-who-helm\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite widespread criticism of his tenure as head of the W.H.O.. In 2020 over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/24\/petition-demanding-resignation-of-w-h-o-chief-passes-1m-signatures\/\">million<\/a> people called for&nbsp;the resignation of Tedros via a petition, due to his failure to declare the \u201cChina virus outbreak as a global health emergency\u201d, and also over the alleged undue influence China has over the Ethiopian.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12602512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-1196987003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12602512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1196987003-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 28: Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Naohiko Hatta - Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tedros initially refused to declare coronavirus a global health emergency and faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/10\/5-shocking-facts-about-who-chief-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus\/\">accusations<\/a> of spouting Communist China\u2019s government narratives, such as trying to cover up the Chinese origins of the pandemic, and at the start of the pandemic claiming that there was \u201cno clear evidence of human-to-human transmission\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This pro-China approach resulted in Taro Aso the Japanese deputy prime minister and finance minister at the time rebuking the W.H.O. by saying in the Japanese Parliament that&nbsp;some have even started calling the World Health Organization the \u201cChinese Health Organization\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-52679329\">referred<\/a> to the W.H.O. under Tedros in May 2020 as a \u201cpuppet of China\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: A petition calling for the resignation of World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is nearing one million signatures. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/INFaBju21O\">https:\/\/t.co\/INFaBju21O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1249370779134898186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this condemnation, the W.H.O. has been more critical of China such as refusing to rule out the lab leak hypothesis, which prompted China to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/04\/22\/china-attacks-who-director-again-urging-wuhan-lab-probe\/\">directly attack<\/a> Tedros and the W.H.O. \u2013 suggesting Tedros was being paid by anti-China forces.<\/p>\n<p>This however has not stopped China from supporting Tedros\u2019 current re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros has also faced increased criticism from his native Ethiopia accusing him of \u201cmisconduct and violation of his professional and legal responsibility\u201d, following his comments claiming the government is restricting medication access to Tigray \u2013 his home region which is currently in the midst of a civil war.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a\">https:\/\/t.co\/wMjjXqJg6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1248940283917565952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tedros has also been suspected of being a member of the violent and powerful communist Ethiopian political party known as the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front, which some political analysts, reportedly including U.S. government officials, have listed in the Global Terrorism Database.<\/p>\n<p>This interference from Tedros meant that Ethiopia blocked the African Union from backing Tedros, and they attempted to prevent Tedros from being renominated, resulting in only a handful of African nations backing the Director-General who mainly had to rely on European nations to support his re-election bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief\u00a0Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is set to be re-appointed via a secret ballot \u2013 standing for the role unopposed. The W.H.O.\u2019s first African leader, Tedros is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}