Trump admin warned to take front seat as UN chief race shifts left, boosting anti-US contenders

The Trump medication is being urged to spell connected discourtesy and marque definite the adjacent United Nations main is aligned with U.S. and Western values and doesn't kowtow to what critics accidental is an ever progressively anti-American institution.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres’ tenure is acceptable to extremity connected Dec. 31, 2026. The erstwhile socialist premier curate of Portugal's tenure has been beset with large wars and crises that person led to accusations of bias against him, particularly erstwhile it comes to Israel. 

Experts hold the Trump medication needs to support a adjacent grip connected who is champion to service the interests of the U.S.

Anne Bayefsky, director, Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust & president, Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital, "As agelong arsenic the United States continues to marque the mistake of being the largest bankroller of the United Nations, and successful keeping U.N. office (some telephone a 5th column) a stone’s propulsion from our fiscal capital, it ought to attraction profoundly astir who leads the organization."

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President of South Africa Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa speaks to the 80th league of the United States General Assembly (UNGA) connected Sept. 23, 2025 astatine UN office successful New York City. World leaders convened for the 80th Session of UNGA, with this year’s taxable for the yearly planetary gathering being "Better together: 80 years and much for peace, improvement and quality rights." (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Jonathan Wachtel, a erstwhile manager of communications and a elder argumentation advisor astatine the United States Mission to the United Nations to U.S. ambassadors Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft, said that, "Since its inception, the United Nations has been a frontline of the Cold War, and contiguous it is progressively a frontline of hostility toward the United States." 

"As the Security Council prepares for its mid‑2026 straw polls, we look the stark world that Russia and China tin veto immoderate campaigner who reflects our values, adjacent arsenic they enactment to undermine U.S. overseas argumentation and erode Western principles. The adjacent secretary‑general must… beryllium a person with backbone and condemnation to champion the ideals connected which the U.N. was founded and the United States has agelong stood — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for arsenic galore radical arsenic possible," helium said.

With conscionable implicit a twelvemonth to spell for the enactment process, subordinate states person begun to nominate candidates that champion acceptable their nationalist interests. 

Brett Schaefer, a elder chap astatine the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital that of the candidates named frankincense far, fewer would beryllium considered acceptable to the U.S. "The announced and rumored candidates… are for the astir portion either U.N. insiders oregon connected the near broadside of the governmental spectrum," Schaefer said. "It’s hard to accidental that the U.S. would beryllium consenting to enactment immoderate of them astatine the existent stage."

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2016 record photo, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, Secretary-General designate of the United Nations, speaks during his assignment astatine U.N. headquarters.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (Seth Wenig/File/The Associated Press)

As the electioneering gets underway, Hugh Dugan, former National Security Council Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Organization Affairs, told Fox News Digital that, "After campaigns and a bid of straw pulls and eliminations of candidates, members of the Security Council volition contiguous the U.N. General Assembly with a preferred campaigner for their ceremonial acceptance precocious adjacent year."

Dugan said that customized would bespeak that the adjacent secretary-general should travel from Latin America. He besides emphasized that determination is an appetite to name a pistillate campaigner aft 15 years of calls for a pistillate Secretary-General.

"If they truly are to instrumentality the helm of a suffering, much oregon little irrelevant, and unmanageable enactment similar this, they’re going to person to amusement up arsenic managers," Dugan said.

In the midst of the election’s "three-ring circus," helium said determination are six candidates who person officially been named and an further 8 who are considered imaginable contenders for the role.

Declared Candidates:

Seemingly the astir palatable campaigner for the U.S. of those declared is the existent caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi of Argentina. An Argentine diplomat, Grossi has been dealing with Iran's ambition to make atomic weapons portion besides moving to forestall a atomic catastrophe successful Russia's warfare against Ukraine. Schaefer says that Grossi is "probably the astir acceptable among the candidates that person been listed truthful far" fixed the "great woody of courage" helium has shown successful his relation astatine the IAEA.

Others include: Former Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca. A subordinate of the Movement for Socialism. Choquehuanca erstwhile expressed his disdain for Western reasoning aft his predetermination arsenic Bolivia’s overseas minister. 

Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet was the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights betwixt 2018 and 2022. U.N. Watch said that successful this role, Bachelet often condemned Israel and the U.S. but "turned a unsighted oculus to wide violations by China, Turkey, North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea," and others.

According to Schaefer, it is "extraordinarily improbable that [Bachelet] would person enactment from the U.S." fixed her governmental leanings and her "remarkable deficiency of bravery successful the behaviour of her presumption arsenic the precocious commissioner for quality rights."

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi speaks to the media astatine Vienna International Airport upon his instrumentality from inspecting the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works connected Sept. 2, 2022 successful Schwechat, Austria. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Getty Images)

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Former Vice President of Costa Rica Rebeca Grynspan, who headed the U.N. Conference connected Trade and Development (UNCTAD.) Grynspan had recommended regularisation arsenic a means "to code the deepening asymmetries" of planetary finance.

Schaefer said Grynspan would not "be an perfect campaigner from a U.S. perspective," arsenic her 30-year U.N. vocation makes her a "consummate insider" who would apt beryllium unwilling "to shingle up the system."

The tract is rounded up by 2 extracurricular candidates, Colombe Cahen-Salvador, a left-wing governmental activistic and co-founder of the Atlas Movement, and Bruno Donat, a associated Mauritius-U.S. national and authoritative astatine U.N. Mine Action Service.

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Possible Candidates

Though they person not been officially named by a subordinate state, Dugan listed respective different officials that are apt to beryllium nominated successful the coming months. Many travel from the near of the governmental aisle, and are improbable to get the backing of the Trump administration. 

Jacinda Ardern, a erstwhile premier curate of New Zealand, who resigned from the relation but is considered "a planetary icon of the left." Schaefer noted that Ardern’s anterior resignation is not "a ringing endorsement" of her capableness to instrumentality connected the demanding relation of secretary-general.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is simply a imaginable campaigner for the U.N. Secretary General. (Nick Perry/AP Photo)

Mexico's erstwhile apical diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, has 14 years of acquisition arsenic the caput of the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. She is presently the caput of situation and earthy resources. 

Other names include: María Fernanda Espinosa formerly defence and overseas curate of Ecuador, Nigeria's Amina Mohammed, U.N. lawman secretary‑general, Kristalina Georgieva, managing manager of the International Monetary Fund since 2019 of Bulgaria, and erstwhile caput of the U.N. Development Programme Achim Steiner of Germany.

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Bayefsky said that, "A agelong database of anti-American secretaries-general, topped disconnected by the profoundly hostile Antonio Guterres, person done tremendous harm to America’s planetary relations, fueled antisemitism connected a planetary scale, and gravely diminished planetary bid and security. We instrumentality a backmost spot to this predetermination astatine our peril."