Greta Thunberg, favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize | Chronic

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the native Brazilian leader Raoni Metuktire and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, are the main candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize that will be designated this Friday in Oslo, Norway. The long list of candidates is also composed of the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva and dad Francisco.

The 16-year-old Swedish teenager started a weekly school strike a little over a year before her country's parliament called for action against climate change, a move that gave birth to the global FridaysForFuture movement. Friday for the future). .

Thunberg has been received by world leaders. He spoke a week ago at the UN Summit for Climate Action and became a world leader in the fight for climate, one of the dominant issues today. # 39; hui. If he won the prize, he would become the youngest winner in the history of the Nobel Prize, beating the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who had it in 2014 at 17 years old.

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Forecasts include other names related to the fight for the environment, led by Raoni Metuktire, emblematic figure of deforestation in the Amazon and referent of the Kayapo people, is one of the finalists of the Sakharov Prize 2019 for the freedom of conscience of the European Parliament.

The other candidates

Efforts to implement the Paris Agreement could reward the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardernsaid the EFE news agency. Another important name among the 304 candidates is that of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, promoter of a peace agreement between his country and Eritrea.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Union for Civil Liberties in America (ACLU), the International Land Coalition and the NGO Committee also sound like candidates to the bookmakers and in Oslo. Rescue International.

The list of candidates includes the former CIA analyst Edward Snowden and several Russian representatives like Svetlana Ganushkina, the Memorial organization; the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", Sergey Kovaliov, Lilia Shibanova, Ludmila Alexeeva, NGO Agora and Chechen lawyer Lidia Yusupova.

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The Arctic Council, the Lebanese Hajer Sharief, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Pope Franciscothe Saudi Raif Badawi and the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, also appear in the forecasts.

The Nobel Peace Prize of last year went to Congolese Denis Mukwege and the Iraqis Nadia Muradrewarded by "their efforts to put an end to the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and in armed conflict". The Peace Prize is the only one of the six awards awarded outside Sweden to Oslo, Norway, at the express request of Alfred Nobel, as Norway was once part of the Kingdom of Sweden.