{"id":14786,"date":"2022-09-30T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/?page_id=14786"},"modified":"2022-10-01T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:15:52","slug":"election-results-director-bdt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/election-results-director-bdt\/","title":{"rendered":"Election results: Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section class=\"ituBanner bg banner-elected\" style=\"background-color: #009CD6\">\n        <div class=\"bgContainer\">\n            <img src=https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Cosmas-Zavazava-3.png alt=\"Elected: Dr Cosmas ZAVAZAVA\" style=\"object-fit: contain; object-position: bottom 60%;\" \/>\n            <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n                <div class=\"content\" data-span=\"8\">\n                    <div class=\"main\">\n                        <h2 class=\"h3 white\">Dr Cosmas ZAVAZAVA<\/h2>\n                        <p class=\"white\">Director-elect of the Telecommunication Development Bureau<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/en\/elections\/elections-results\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/en\/elections\/elections-results\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n        <div data-span=\"12\">\n                                <section>\n        <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n\n                    <ul class=\"ituElectionResultRounds\" data-span=\"8\">\n                                        <div class=\"ituCard highlight-alt\" data-span=\"8\">\n\t\t<p>Member States have elected Dr Cosmas ZAVAZAVA of Zimbabwe as the next Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"ituCard highlight-alt\" data-span=\"8\">\n\t\t<p><strong>Third and final round of the elections: Friday, 30 September 2022, 18.30 hours (Bucharest time)<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Cosmas Zavazava of Zimbabwe was elected Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU with 101 votes. 165 Member States were present and voting and the required majority was 83. Stephen Bereaux of the Bahamas received 63 votes.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"ituCard highlight-alt\" data-span=\"8\">\n\t\t<p><strong>Second round of the elections: Friday, 30 September 2022, 15.00 hours (Bucharest time)<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Member States present and voting: 181 (Required majority: 91)<br>Cosmas Zavazava of Zimbabwe: 81<br>Stephen Bereaux of the Bahamas: 59<br>Muhammadou M.O. Kah of Gambia: 26<br>Anusha Rahman Khan of Pakistan: 15<br><br>After the second round of voting, the candidatures of\u00a0Muhammadou M.O. KAH\u00a0of Gambia and Anusha Rahman Khan from Pakistan were withdrawn.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"ituCard highlight-alt\" data-span=\"8\">\n\t\t<p><strong>First round of the elections: Friday, 30 September 2022, 09.00 hours (Bucharest time)<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Member States present and voting: 181 (Required majority: 91)<br>Cosmas Zavazava of Zimbabwe: 59<br>Stephen Bereaux of the Bahamas: 47<br>Muhammadou M.O. Kah of Gambia: 35<br>Anusha Rahman Khan of Pakistan: 20<br>Alexander Ntoko of Cameroon: 11<br>Jean Phil\u00e9mon Kissangou of the Republic of the Congo: 8<br><br>After the first round of voting, the candidatures of Jean Phil\u00e9mon Kissangou of the Republic of the Congo and Alexander Ntoko from Cameroon were withdrawn.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n                            <\/ul>\n                            <div class=\"election-resources data-span-override\" data-span=\"4\">\n                    <p class=\"title\">Resources<\/p>\n                                                                <div>\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/md\/S22-PP-C-0074\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                            <i class=\"fal fa-file\"><\/i> CV and Vision Statement\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PP-22 ELECTIONS: Dr Cosmas Zavazava,  Director-elect, BDT, ITU, Acceptance Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhq7sLydsV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ituContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pp.itu.int\/2022\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}