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Ecuador is in the middle of a government transition, so Arteaga has yet to obtain a national endorsement, according to Forward. Guterres has achieved that formality. The campaign approached Ecuador and other countries to support Arteaga, and Ecuador has shown interest in her candidacy, but it is unlikely to make a move until a new government is in place at the end of May, according to Venzon and Cahen-Salvador.

Official debates and interactions with all the candidates took place over most of the year until Guterres was recommended by the member Security Council in October and the member General Assembly approved the choice soon after. Currently, there are six other self-nominated candidates, including a young, media savvy UN staffer and Canadian, Arora Akanksha , but their candidacies are not being recognised by the UN General Assembly and the Security Council presidents because the outsiders are not backed by a UN member state.

The campaign has also nominated a potential deputy secretary-general, Paula Bertol, an Argentine lawmaker who most recently was her country's permanent representative at the Organization of American States. In a General Assembly meeting on 23 April, at least a dozen countries and regional blocs repeatedly said the UN needed to follow a more democratic path, but no one said it had to happen now.

On 7 May, Bozkir will conduct an informal dialogue, which is part of the General Assembly resolution guidelines; the three-hour interaction with Guterres as the only candidate is supposed to involve civil society asking questions.

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A candidate must, for example, be endorsed by a member state. This has always been the case, although it is not explicitly stated anywhere. And there should be geographical rotation — that is, for example, a Secretary General from Africa is succeeded by a candidate from Asia. When and exactly how a candidate is nominated by the Security Council remains unclear. This year, nominations will take place sometime between May and October.

The degree of transparency during the election of Antonio Guterres as Secretary General five years ago was unprecedented. The General Assembly adopted a resolution which laid down the details of the selection process. On paper, Rosalia Arteaga meets many of the requirements a UN Secretary General has to fulfill — both officially and unofficially. For a short period, she was president of Ecuador, the country's vice president, has had experience as a cabinet minister and as secretary general of a major organization.

In addition, she hails from Latin America, the region which, according to Cahen-Salvador, is "next in line. During the Forward press conference, Rosalia Arteaga comes across as slightly tense and nervous. She emphasizes how happy she is with all the support, the many messages she has received from across the globe, adding that even the government in her native country had called and pledged their support, but that she was not going to accept assistance from Quito.

Of course — nowhere does it say that outside candidates do not have a chance. Thus far, however, only Antonio Guterres' profile can be found on the UN website. In order to become an official candidate, Security Council and General Assembly presidents must declare the candidate in a letter. To date, this has only happened when a member state submitted a proposal. Otherwise, the candidacy remains symbolic. From the age of 16, the now year-old told DW, he has been looking into the United Nations and how it can become more democratically legitimate, more transparent and open to civil society.

Together with other organizations, his group "Democracy without Borders" has recently published three proposals for reforming the UN, including the establishment of a parliamentary assembly.

The Forward initiative, meanwhile, wants to continue its campaign — by staging protests and devising ways to get the UN apparatus moving from the outside. Colombe Cahen-Salvador sums things up nicely: "We firmly believe that if we make noise now, we can help change the process in the future.

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