World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is guaranteed a second five-year term Tuesday when he stands for reelection in an unopposed ballot.
The 57-year-old former Ethiopian minister of health and foreign affairs will be rewarded by attendees at the W.H.O.’s main annual assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, in a flat rejection of any attempt to reform the U.N. subsidiary.
His first term was marked by stumbling to address the coronavirus pandemic while deferring to China alongside a long line of other crises, including a sexual abuse scandal involving W.H.O. staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo and wider allegations of mismanagement across the globalist institution.
Scientists drafted by W.H.O. to investigate the coronavirus´ origins in Wuhan, China, admitted the critical probe was ” stalled ” last year, after issuing a report even Tedros acknowledged had prematurely ruled out the possibility of a laboratory leak.
Such has been his questionable performance, at one stage a global petition calling for Tedros to resign went close one million signatures.
It was roundly ignored by W.H.O. bureaucrats who operate like their leader inside a culture of absolute impunity.
With President Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House, Tedros has enjoyed broad support in Washington which has helped shield him from further criticism.
This backing is in stark contrast to Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump who began pulling the United States out of the W.H.O. after excoriating it for being Beijing’s puppet and helping cover up the initial Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Watch: President Donald Trump withdraws the U.S. from the W.H.O.
As Breitbart News reported, there is no shortage of criticism from the world outside the W.H.O. for Tedros and his work.
Critics point to the fact he is not a medical doctor and is a member of a Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian political party that analysts have listed as a perpetrator of terrorism.
As a member of the violent and powerful communist Ethiopian political party known as the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Tedros rose through Ethiopia’s autocratic regime to reign as health (2005-2012) and foreign minister (2012-2016).
Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta – Pool/Getty Images)
Analysts, reportedly including American government officials, have listed the TPLF in the Global Terrorism Database.
In October 2017, Tedros named Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” to help combat non-communicable diseases in Africa, provoking outrage from medical professionals and human rights groups.
At the time the New York Times noted:
The role of good-will ambassador is largely symbolic, but rights groups were scathing in their reaction to the symbolism of giving it to a man whose leadership, they say, has led to the collapse of its health service and major rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Ultimately, Tedros rescinded his decision to name Mugabe “goodwill ambassador” in the wake of criticism.
The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly is currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland, and ends Saturday. This is the decision-making body of W.H.O. comprised of representatives of 194 countries.
The biennial W.H.O. budget for 2022-2023 has been set at $6.12 billion (a five percent increase from the $5.84 billion budgeted for the previous biennium, 2020-2021).