A couple of weeks ago, we told you about those important party elections, details of which were hidden in an obscure corner of the party website. Well, our stirring did generate a few nominations which meant that there were a good few contested positions.
Federal Executive members voted over last weekend and the results were declared last night. Here they are in full:
Deputy Chair of the Federal Executive
Neil Fawcett
Federal Finance and Administration Committee Chair
Peter Dunphy
FFAC Members
Liz Leffman
Glenn Hughes
Peter Ellis
Edward Lord
Seth Thevoz
Party Treasurer
Ian Wrigglesworth
Campaigns and Communications Committee Chair
James Gurling
CCC Members
Candy Piercy
Martin Tod
Chair of the International Relations Committee
Robert Woodthorpe-Browne
Vice-chairs of the IRC (2)
David Simmons
Members of the SAO Review Group (4)
Rabi Martins
FE Candidates’ sub-group (3)
Sue Doughty
FCC Representatives (2)
Kavya Kaushik
James Gurling
ALDE Council Representative (1)
Robert Woodthorpe-Browne
ALDE Congress representatives (2)
David Simmons
Liberal International Executive representatives (2)
Phil Bennion
Ab Brightman
Liberal International Congress representatives (2)
No nominations received
Diversity Engagement Group Members (3) *
Daisy Cooper
Pauline Pearce
Ed Fordham
Nominations will be re-opened for the following positions which are opened to all members of the party:
2 Liberal International Congress representatives
1 Vice Chair of the International Relations Committee
1 ALDE Congress Representative
3 members of the (S)AO Review Group
The following post is open to members of the Federal Executive only.
We will publish the timetable for the elections and details of how you can stand as soon as we get it.
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7 Comments
One position I would like to see especially after the calamity the party suffered with regard to inappropriate behaviour allegations that there is a member to represent the staff the party employs
There are staff reps on FFAC.
really?
Rob: Yes. Many years ago I was the FE staff rep.
Though, IIRC, they only represent those employed directly by the Federal party (ie LDHQ and Campaigns) and not those employed by state parties, regions, local parties, council groups, elected officials (MPs, MEPs, AMs, MSPs), or by the leader’s office or (any of the) whips’ offices – or also SpAds now we’re in government.
There are more party staff who aren’t represented than those who are.
Richard, there is now a Field Staff Rep but I am not sure what definition is of Field Staff (or how the vast majority of staff can be represented by *one* person)
Richard raises an important point but also a tricky one.
What is the right way to represent staff employed by ‘the party’ in its wider sense but who are not actually employed by the Federal Party? Any employee who is a member and is not employed by the Federal Party is entitled to stand for election.
As it happens, as a result of that, you now have a Deputy Chair of the FE who is employed by two different bits of ‘the party’ but is not employed by the Federal Party.