Background

Andrés Piazza from AGEIA DENSI, who was serving a one year term as LACRALO President from April 15 2011 has stepped down due to work commitments. The position for LACRALO President is hereby vacant.

ALS representatives from an accredited ALS in LACRALO can submit nominations of candidates to serve as the LACRALO president.

The term for the LACRALO President is for the remainder of the one year term until April 15, 2012.

The deadline for the submission of nominations to serve as LACRALO president is July 22, 2011.

Description of LACRALO President/Chair:

According to number 4 of the LACRALO Operating Principles:

"His duties will consist of, among other things, establish a link between the discussions in ALAC and the contributions made by the region, represent the region in the ALAC face-to-face meetings and chair the debates of the Assembly held through discussion lists, teleconferences and face-to-face meetings"

See: [LACRALO Organising Documents|LACRALO:LACRALO Organising Documents]

LACRALO Interim Chair Proposal

Vanda Scartezini has proposed that, in lieu of a new election at this time, the current LACRALO acting Chair and Secretariat, Dev Anand Teelucksingh, continue in both positions until the end of the current term on April 15, 2012.  If this proposal is accepted by LACRALO, no new election will need to be held until then.

This option will be discussed during LACRALO's call on 21 July. (Update July 21 2011, during the LACRALO call, there was no expressed support for this option) 

Nominations for LACRALO Chair Position

The LACRALO Secretariat  has asked interested ALS representatives to put forward their candidatures by July 22 2011.

* During the LACRALO conference call on July 21 2011, Sergio stated his email to the list was not an expression of support of the candidate

Election Timetable (suggested)

Call for nominations for LACRALO president : July 8 - July 22

Acceptance of nominations : July 23 - July 26

If there is only one nomination and there is no request by any ALS for a vote, then the nomination is elected by acclaimation at the end of the acceptance of nominations.

If there are more than one candidate OR there is a request by an ALS for a call for a vote, then an online vote to elect the LACRALO President will begin by Friday July 29th 2011 for a period of 7 days until August 5 2011.

Each ALS in LACRALO will be emailed specific instructions and a website to go to submit their vote by August 5 2011. 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.