I’ve been struggling to say something witty about the race to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as IAEA Director-General.
Mark Heinrich at Reuters sums it up pretty well:
The International Atomic Energy Agency failed to agree on a new chief on Friday, with Japanese frontrunner Yukiya Amano falling one vote short of the required two-thirds majority.
He consistently outpolled South Africa’s Abdul Samad Minty in five rounds of voting by the nuclear watchdog’s board of governors. But neither was seen as broad-based enough to replace Mohamed ElBaradei, who steps down in November after 12 years.
So, instead, I just made baseball cards for the candidates. Enjoy