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So far Marciulionyte gets just 3 votes in UNESCO head elections
Petras Vaida, BC, Vilnius/Paris, 18.09.2009.Print version
Ambassador Ina Marciulionyte, Lithuania's permanent representative to UNESCO, has got only 3 votes out of 58 in the first round of the elections of the CEO of the organization for the term of 2009-2013.
Ina Marciulionyte. |
The way it was forecasted before the elections, the head of UNESCO was not elected during the first election round on Thursday evening, reports ELTA/LETA.
The second round of the elections is to take place on Friday evening.
In order to win the election, a candidate has to get at least 30 votes of the countries belonging to the executive board of UNESCO. A total of 5 election rounds are foreseen to achieve this.