19/09/2012 11:00
FIVB Board confirms agenda and voting procedure ahead of historic Congress
News from the FIVB
Anaheim, USA, September 17, 2012. The agenda for the FIVB Congress and the voting procedure for the
elections which are due to take place during the Congress on Friday were
approved by the FIVB Board of Administration during its
pre-FIVB-Congress meeting at the Disneyland Hotel on Monday.
The
FIVB Board of Administration, which also included the newly elected
Board members and presidents of the FIVB Commissions and Councils, were
unanimous in their approval of the election process for both the FIVB
Presidency, where three candidates - Mr Doug Beal (USA), Dr Ary Graça
(BRA) and Mr Chris Schacht (AUS) - will run for election to be FIVB
President from 2012 to 2016 and the two minority gender positions on the
FIVB Board of Administration where another three candidates - Mrs Marta
Centeno O. De Sajche (GUA), Mrs Vilja Savisaar-Toomast (EST) and Mrs
Rita Subowo (INA) – will run.
Each candidate will have 15 minutes
to present their candidature to the Congress while the voting procedure
for the FIVB President will consist of the following:
First round – the candidate who receives more than 50 per cent of the votes cast is elected.Second
round – if no candidate is elected in the first round, all candidates
except for the two candidates receiving the most votes are eliminated. A
second round between these two candidates shall take place at which the
candidate receiving the most number of votes is elected.
It a
similar process for the gender minority positions however in the first
round it is the first two candidates who receive more than 50 per cent
of the votes cast are elected. If no candidate is elected in the first
round, a second round will take place with the two candidates (out of
the three) with the most number of votes being elected.
The
Board of Administration also confirmed that the new FIVB Board would
meet after the election of the new President to rule on the President’s
proposal for the FIVB 1st executive vice president, the FIVB 2nd
executive vice-president and the treasurer; the members of the new
executive committee – made up of the President, the five confederation
presidents, two representatives from each confederation and two members
from the gender minority – and the executive group – made up of the five
confederation presidents.
The 33rd FIVB Congress will be
the "first democratic election" for the FIVB according to FIVB President
Jizhong Wei who will not be standing for relection, with three
candidates standing for election.
The FIVB Board of
Administration also showed great solidarity in approving for proposal to
the FIVB Congress all amendments made to the FIVB Constitution and
Regulations. The meeting started with Mr Beal, the president of
the host federation USA Volleyball, welcoming all the members, before
President Wei thanked USA Volleyball and the city of Anaheim with the
cooperation of the USOC.
“During my four year term I thank you
all for the confidence you put in me,” President Wei told the Board
members. “I have been trying my best to do something I could do. Now I
recognise also that I could not do better so voluntarily, and with
pleasure, I will step down to give the baton to the new board because
you can do better to lead the FIVB and to open a new era for the FIVB. We
may have different opinions but we have mutual trust, this is a legacy
created by you all in the FIVB. We can’t do something in one minute, in
one meeting so in the FIVB the reform will continue. There should be
more reform, not less. The main goal of this Congress now is to
prepare the better future of the FIVB in summarising the past four
years. To summarise the past is easy because we have been working
together over the past four years with the national federations and
confederations, players, officials, sponsors and promoters. The facts
are there but to prepare a new future for the FIVB is not easy.”
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