The UN Security Council held its seventh straw poll on Friday on candidates to become the next secretary-general, Xinhua reported.

According to leaked results cited by the agency, Rebeca Grynspan led with 11 encouraged votes and four discouraged, followed by Rafael Grossi with nine encouraged, four discouraged and two with no opinion expressed. The round followed the entry on October 21 of Lana Nusseibeh, a diplomat from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the country’s former permanent representative to the UN, and the withdrawal of former Senegalese President Macky Sall, announced on October 17.