Hi Folks It seems that the rules seem to be a bit confusing on our RALO obligations aka Chair vs the will and wishes our RALO memberhip. At first i had the impression that I was obligated to immediately hold a vote . I informed our membership of the pending vote and then I saw the comments and the rules and it seems I need to *FIRST* to appeal to the community first to gauge their *PASSION* on this issue and if they are keen to have this vote then we will post a vote. I asked Ariel to hold on the vote and I am now sending out a message on this situation ask them to voice their opinion. If the majority are passionate to include SB then we will proceed G Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn@gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight . On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Program Admin < program-admin@atlarge.icann.org> wrote:

Dear All,

This is to let you know that by the 23 Jan 2017 23:59 UTC deadline, the European Regional At-Large Organization (EURALO) concluded its vote on adding *Sébastien Bachollet* to the Final Slate for the ICANN Board Director position selected by the At-Large Community.

The vote result confirms EURALO ALSes' support for Sébastien's petition: http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/euro-discuss/2017-January/ 004759.html.

The Board Member Selection Process Committee (BMSC) herby informs the other RALOs that, to decide whether they would support the EURALO petition to add Sébastien Bachollet on the final slate, they will have to conduct their formal decision making process, according to RALO's respective rules of procedure. If a RALO has already conducted its formal decision making process to decide not to support any petition, no further action is required for that RALO but they have to inform program-admin@atlarge. icann.org that they do not wish to support Sebastien's petition. The deadline for the other RALOs to make their decisions and inform program-admin@atlarge.icann.org is *Sunday, 29 January 23:59 UTC*.

*Background Information*

For background information of the RALO petition process, please read this <https://atlarge.icann.org/news/announcement-987-2016-12-19-en> announcement.

To learn more about the ICANN Board Director Selection Process, please visit the At-Large Board Member Selection workspace <https://community.icann.org/x/6Q2MAg>.

Any questions regarding the process should also be directed by email to program-admin@atlarge.icann.org. They will be answered as quickly as possible.

On Behalf of Tijani BEN JEMAA, BMSPC Chair

Heidi Ullrich, Ariel Liang, Terri Agnew, and Yesim Nazlar *At-Large Board Member Selection Program Admin Staff *

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