Dear Humberto,

As Carlton has said, there is no retroactivity being applied. The terms of the chair, secretariat and an ALAC member's terms are ending in 2019 under our previous OP. With the new OP, new positions and new terms for the chair and secretary and the new positions apply from now on.

As you have stated, your proposal is to have a person in region D to be chair for a further two years and a person from region B be secretary for a further two years. Your proposal offers the current chair and secretariat to be chair and secretariat for three years in all.

I do not understand the rationale in picking the chair elect and secretary elect from Region B and Region A respectively, nor the selection of another ALAC member from Region C.

If I understood your proposal, if implemented it would mean that:

- one region will have both ALAC seats every other year.

- the Chair will be from region D for 5 years from 2018 to 2026.

- the secretary will be from region B for 5 years from 2018 up to 2024.

But I may have misunderstood. To prevent misunderstandings, I suggest that a table be done showing how the terms of the positions and how the election cycle would work for each year, up to 2026 so we all in LACRALO can fully understand.

I will do the same for "my" proposal also.

Kind Regards,

Dev Anand

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:13 PM Humberto Carrasco <hcarrascob@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

Through this email, I allow myself to make a proposal of what I understand these elections should be.

I do not agree in giving retroactivity to the principle of rotation. This means that the current leaders (president and secretary) will only be one year, instead of 2 years as established by the new operating principles. This is a discrimination that has no basis.

Nor do I agree with the interpretation that Dev presents in its mail about what he understands about the rotation principle. Dev’s interpretation was not what we talked about in Puerto Rico. According to my interpretation of the principle of rotation, this should work in the following way and in order to explain my point I will use my case as an example: When I finish my period as ALAC MEMBER (2020), there will be elections for this position. My interpretation of the principle of rotation has two consequences:

1.- A negative aspect: To choose the person who assume the position of ALAC Member, this person cannot be from the Andes sub region to which I belong.

2.- A positive aspect: For the next election of Chair - vice-chair and secretary vice-secretary (2021) there is no impediment that someone from the region of the Andes should run.

For these reasons, I would like to make the following proposal that starts from the current positions and sub regions:

PROPOSAL

* To start with the current leadership positions respecting the principle of Non-Retroactivity of the Law.
* Possibility that all current leaders can be reelected.
* New positions will be elected (vice Chair and vice secretary).

The proposal is the following:

PERÍODO 2019 – 2021
CARGOS	REGIÓN
Chair	D: MERCOSUR
Elected Chair	B ANDES
Secretary	B: ANDES
Elected Secretary	A: CENTRAL
ALAC Member 1	C: CARIBE
Advised by LACRALO to serve within NOMCOM	C: CARIBE
ALAC Member appointed by NOMCOM	Member elected by NOMCOM

I suggest taking Dev's proposal and mine and submitting them to a vote of LACRALO so that we can move forward.