...

A call for nominations was issued on the LACRALO mailing list on March 4 2012. 

According to the LACRALO Organising Documents,  (https://community.icann.org/x/Oo0i), the term of the president of LACRALO and the secretariat of LACRALO is one year each.

...

Nominations for LACRALO Secretariat

The LACRALO Secretariat  has asked interested ALS representatives to put forward their candidatures by April 4 2012.

Election Timetable

A list of ALSes and representatives in LACRALO will be sent by At the 21 July 2011 LACRALO conference, it was agreed by those attending that call, unless there was a request by any ALS to call for a vote that we should attempt to have a interim LACRALO president acclaimed by consensus, if there was only one nomination. 

Unfortunately, there were only 6 ALSes present on that call, (https://community.icann.org/x/gIEUAQ) which means the conference call was not quorate.

Therefore, since there are only 4 ALSes that have expressed support for the nomination of Jose Arce as LACRALO president (https://community.icann.org/x/zIMKAQ), a simple majority (>18 ALSs) is needed to express support for the nomination of Jose Arce as Interim President to be confirmed.

A Bigpulse poll has been created and ALS representatives will be emailed instructions on how they can express their support. 

The only question on the poll is:

"Do you support the nomination of Jose Arce as interim LACRALO President until April 2012?" with the possible choices of "Yes" or "No".

The poll will close on Friday 29 July 2011 at 23:59 UTC.

Once more than 18 ALSes have confirmed their support for the nomination of Jose Arce as interim LACRALO president, then Jose Arce will be the interim LACRALO president until April 2012 by acclamation. 

Outcome 

The online poll to express support for José Francisco Arce to be the interim LACRALO President until April 2012 concluded on Friday 29 July 2011 and the results are as follows:

• 22 out of 36 ALS participated in the poll which is 61% of the ALS in LACRALO
• 21 responded Yes
• 1 responded No

-Large Staff to the mailing list to confirm the ALS list. 

Time would be allocated to the monthly LACRALO call on April 19 2012 for questions and answers from the candidates.

ALSes are encouraged to submit questions for the candidates in writing before April 19 2012 for the candidates to answer them on the conference call. After the conference call, online votes for the LACRALO President and LACRALO Secretariat will begin on April 23 2012 for a period of 7 days until April 30 2012. 

Each ALS in LACRALO will be emailed specific instructions and websites to go to submit their votes on Monday April 23 2012.

ON May 1 2012, at the end of the voting period, the votes are tallied as per rule 12.9 of the RoP (each vote is weighted with a country coefficient), and the results of the vote, including the votes cast and by which voter are presented to all of LACRALO, as per rule 20 governing rule 12.4

ALS representatives can email any questions to the list or via this election page.

Questions for the Candidates for the April 19 2012 conference call

The audio from the LACRALO April 19 2012 conference call can be downloaded from the  LACRALO 19.04.2012 Teleconference page. The discussion with the candidates starts at roughly 90 minutes. Since more than 18 ALSes have confirmed their support for the nomination of Jose Arce as interim LACRALO president, then José Francisco Arce will be the interim LACRALO president until April 2012