Having at least a part of one foot in the global time and frequency community I'd say that it seems that the consensus is building toward eliminating leap seconds.
There was a vote planned in 2012 to do so after a straw poll showed that most member countries was in favor to do so. But in a typical committee move they elected to study it more before making a decision.
Hopefully there will be some movement next year when they're scheduled to discuss it again. It's unfortunate that the first negative leap second is likely to occur before then.