{"id":220335,"date":"2022-03-25T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/international-labour-organizations-governing-body-to-elect-new-directorgeneral?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-03-25T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:05:57","slug":"international-labour-organizations-governing-body-to-elect-new-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/international-labour-organizations-governing-body-to-elect-new-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"International Labour Organization’s Governing Body to elect new Director-General"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The election of the 11th Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) will take place on Friday 25 March 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The five candidates for the post are: Gilbert Houngbo of Togo, Kang Kyung-wha of the Republic of Korea, Mthunzi Mdwaba of South Africa, Muriel Pénicaud of France and Greg Vines of Australia.<\/p>\n

Members of the ILO’s Governing Body  will vote during a closed sitting that begins at 10:00 CET (09:00 GMT). There will be several rounds of secret ballots, with breaks of at least 45-minutes between each round, until an eventual winner is selected. In each round the candidate with the lowest number of votes will drop out until a candidate gains more than half of the votes of all voting members. After each round the names of the remaining candidates will appear on the Governing Body website.<\/p>\n

As soon as the name of the elected candidate is known the ILO will issue a press release, announcing the winner of the vote.<\/p>\n

At this point the Governing Body sitting becomes public and the Director-General-elect will make a statement that will be broadcast on the ILO website  .<\/p>\n

A news offer will be sent to broadcasters which will include b-roll of the room and a clip of the Director-General-elect’s acceptance speech. Video of the full speech will also be available on request.<\/p>\n

Because of COVID-19 restrictions the ILO building will not be open to the general public, including journalists.<\/p>\n

The candidates’ vision statements and CVs  are available on the ILO website, as well as recordings of the candidate public dialogues  that took place in February 2022.<\/p>\n

The new Director-General’s term will begin on 1 October 2022. The current Director-General, Guy Ryder, from the United Kingdom, has held the office since 2012.<\/p>\n

Interview requests should be sent via email to newsroom@ilo.org .<\/p>\n

For further information contact newsroom@ilo.org .<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of International Labour Organisation (ILO).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Africa Newsroom – APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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