Dear All, Please see the table at http://bit.ly/2WqEJkV showing how the election process with the rotation principle will work for several years. Its been termed "Dev's proposal" but to me, this is what LACRALO's OP intended. However, now that Humberto has stated the overriding requirement in his proposal is to allow for the current chair and secretary to run again, see this proposal at http://bit.ly/2H6OoIv showing how the election process will work for several years with a transitional rule that for 2019 only, allow for the elections of the chair and secretary to be from the same region as the current chair and secretary. Dev Anand On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:22 AM Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Vanda,
I posted about this in the governance group in early April some time ago, I'll quote the relevant sections
Our operating principles specified the rotation principle agreed upon by all following the deliberations at Puerto Rico and subsequent meeting of the governance wg and then approved by all in LACRALO.
7.2.a – The region is divided into four (4) subregions comprising the following countries: A) Central America and Mexico: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and Panama. B) Andes: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. C) Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago D) Mercosur: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
We start the rotation using the definitions of the sub-regions in the OP and numbered sequentially. The rotation starts at the next sub region from the domicile of the incumbent Chair, Secretariat and ALAC.
This means for this year: - Chair nominations will be sought from region A (since the chair is from Region D) for a period of two years. - Chair elect nominations will be sought from region B excluding Chile (because of ALAC member) for a period of two years. - Secretary nominations will be sought from Region C (since Secretary Is from region B) excluding Trinidad and Tobago (because of Nomcom member) for a period of two years. - Secretary-elect nominations will be sought from Region D for a period of two years. - ALAC nominations will be from region D (as ALAC Member is from C) for a period of two years.
Dev Anand Teelucksingh