Results of the second round of voting

Farouk Hosny 23

Benita Ferrero-Walder 9

Ivonne Baki 8

Irina Bokova 8

Ina Marciulionyte 4

Alexander Yakovenko 3

Noureini Tidjani-Serpos 2

Sospeter Muhongo 1

Mohammed Bedjaoui 0

As compared with the first round, Ferrero-Waldner gained two votes, Farouk Hosny, Ivonne Baki and Ina Marciulionyte gained one vote each, and Alexander Yakovenko dropped four votes. The was one blank ballot on the first round, and none on the second.

I got this information from three independent sources.

Third ballot tomorrow (Saturday) around 3pm Paris time/9am Washington time.

Press coverage of the second round:

• UNESCO fails to produce new Director-General on 2nd voting
• Unesco fails again to elect new head
• UNESCO fails - again - to elect new director-general
• Unesco Elections: Controversial Egyptian Farouk Hosni set to win
• Ирина Бокова остана трета при втория тур за избор на директор на ЮНЕСКО (Bulgarian)
• Литва отозвала кандидатуру И.Марчюлените на пост директора ЮНЕСКО