Nobody really took Irina Bokova's candidacy about UNESCO post seriously, the Financial Times wrote on Thursday, citing an EU diplomat in Paris.
Describing the Bulgarian candidate Irina Bokova as a rank outsider, it recalls that she has become the first woman and the first eastern European to lead the agency.
Bokova, 57, emerged to beat Farouk Hosny, Egypt's long-serving culture minister, in the fifth round of a secret ballot after two countries on UNESCO's executive board switched sides at the last minute and backed her.
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