FIVB Board confirms agenda and voting procedure ahead of
historic Congress
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 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 reelection, 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.”
The FIVB Congress week continues on Tuesday with the FIVB
Congress Workshop on development for the FIVB’s emerging
federations.
Live streaming of the FIVB Congress Workshop and the FIVB
Congress will
be available at the following link:
http://www.fivb.org/EN/Congress/2012/
For further information visit
www.fivb.org
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Email:
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