There are some more secret elections happening. We feel it’s our duty to disseminate the information as widely as possible.
Here are the details of the positions available and how to get yourself nominated:
All persons elected to these posts will hold office for the calendar years 2015 and 2016.
For the election of:
- One Vice-Chairs of the IRC
- Three members of the SAO Review Group
- Two members of the FE Candidates’ sub-group (meets with JSCC)
- One representatives on ALDE Congress
- Two representatives to the LI Congress
The election regulations approved by the Federal Executive in May 2009 are attached for information.
Nominations must be supported by two voting members of the outgoing or incoming Federal Executive, a list of whom is attached, and must be returned, with 75 word statements , no later than 12 noon on 27 February 2015 to David Allworthy, [email protected]. Scanned nominations will be accepted.
David Allworthy, Deputy Acting Returning Officer, 20 February 2015
Remember, you have to get your nominations in with supporting statements by noon on Friday. The Federal Executive members will then vote if there is a contest.
Here’s the list of the people you will need to nominate you:
FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ELECTIONS 2015-16
All persons elected to these posts will hold office for the calendar years 2015 and 2016.
For the election of:
- One Vice-Chairs of the IRC
- Three members of the SAO Review Group
- Two members of the FE Candidates’ sub-group (meets with JSCC)
- One representatives on ALDE Congress
- Two representatives to the LI Congress
The election regulations approved by the Federal Executive in May 2009 are attached for information.
Nominations must be supported by two voting members of the outgoing or incoming Federal Executive, a list of whom is attached, and must be returned, with 75 word statements , no later than 12 noon on 27 February 2015 to David Allworthy, [email protected]. Scanned nominations will be accepted.
David Allworthy, Deputy Acting Returning Officer, 20 February 2015
The directly elected members of FE are:
Ramesh Dewan
Dawn Barnes
Joshua Dixon
Neil Fawcett
Jonathan Fryer
James Gurling
Evan Harris
Keith House
Kavya Kaushik
Caron Lindsay
Gordon Lishman
Pauline Pearce
Candy Piercy
Martin Tod
Councillor Reps are Kath Pinnock and Chris White.
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7 Comments
They aren’t secret. Is the headline “click bait”?
It’s a bit of a running joke. Possibly “not very well publicised” would be a better headline but the effect is the same:-).
These may not be “secret” elections but, as someone who has been a Returning Officer more often than I care to remember, if I had been responsible for them I would consider myself to have failed in my duty regarding publicity.
Previous experience at local party level has taught me that the people at the top of our party only care about our constitution when it helps them, however, I find it very hard to believe that any internal election regulations (except possibly for posts elected at a conference) only allow six and a half days between announcement of poll and close of nominations.
However, the real problem with an issue like this is that it adds to the feeling some of us have that some people in our party currently see internal democracy as an inconvenience to keep the party on the track they would set for it. Regrettably Caron, this means that, whatever positions these elections are for, if it is a joke, it isn’t very funny.
Phil, I think you are being unfair. I certainly think that the party could have publicised the elections better – but I have done so as widely as I can in the hope of remedying that.
These are also re-advertisements for positions which weren’t filled in January. There will have been a full week between the nominations going out and closing.
Thanks for this Caron, I did not realise it was a re-advertisement. My comments regarding the returning officer are withdrawn and I apologise.
Interesting isn’t it though, taken together with my own completely frustrating experience of the approach of senior party members to the constitution and my profound concern at the direction our party is being taken in, an ageing hack like me, thoroughly versed in the cock-up theory reality of political mistakes, reads one article and comes to a mistaken conclusion.
It would appear that I have followed the lead of those in the Westminster Bubble and found myself a bunker to oppose them from! I shall now abandon this position for the open ground.
I receive a fair amount of emails from the party – would one of them have included details of these elections? Perhaps it might have included a translation of all the acronyms as well. If couched in the same terms as this article, it would certainly give the impression that nominationx are sought only from those already well versed in the party machinery.
Our party constitution is far too complicated and opaque to most members. For example, of course it is sensible that federal committees have reps from other committees and from parliament but I see no reason why such people should have votes which can then overturn what the majority of elected members think. It is also news to me that anyone elects delegates to ALDE Congress. I attended in 2013 simply by virtue of applying and was excluded in 2014, by whom is far from clear but clearly because it was known that I would support Verhofstadt against the Leader’s wishes. At neither congress could any of us have been said to have had a democratic mandate.