[EURO-Discuss] Things to discuss

Wolf Ludwig wolf.ludwig at comunica-ch.net
Wed Jul 11 12:18:36 EDT 2007


Hi Nick,

Nick Ashton-Hart wrote Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:29:
>Can someone please tell me why we are having a vote when there is  
>only one candidate for elections? This doesn't make sense to me. I  
>hope you'll all understand this isn't meant to be critical, but I  
>have little admin support for the next several weeks and I really  
>have to prioritise what I spend time on. It is hard to for me to  
>understand how an election with only one candidate for each position  
>is even possible - the outcome is predetermined. That's like a  
>communist-era election in the Soviet union with only one candidate,  
>surely?

Let me try. I think no one wants to complicate your life or to bother 
you with too much bureaucracy. And I understand your reasoning. 
BUT even if the outcome may be predetermined -- like a 
communist-era election ;-), the difference is: If half of the board 
says „No, we don’t want this guy!“ then we have to look for 
another volunteer/candidate because it wouldn’t make sense to 
me taking over a chair position without having the confidence 
and approval of at least a majority of my board colleagues. 

And I can imagine that Jeanette may see it for her vice position 
in a similar way?!

Please be asured that we don’t want to play on formalism but 
fatalism (because their is no alternative) would be a poor
precondition for a chairs’ legitimacy.

If you don’t have the time to create an online voting tool then 
simply define a voting period (one week?) when board members 
can express their opinions or even abstentions on the candidates. 
Once they are approved it’s done – otherwise we have to look 
for other and more acceptable solutions.

As I agree to Wolfgang’s and Jeanette’s argument that the Lisbon 
meeting was a pre-EURALO issue, I will follow your hint and fill-in/ 
submit a demand for an official F2F meeting in combination with 
the Outreach-meeting in October in Warsaw ( - and hope it may 
find a favourable consideration by you).

Best,
Wolf

>On 10 Jul 2007, at 22:27, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>>
>> Nick Ashton-Hart schrieb:
>>> I am not sure what if anything there is to be voted on to be  
>>> honest. If there is only one candidate for Chair, is the question  
>>> to be asked in the election "Do you support Wolf Ludwig to be the  
>>> Chair of EURALO?"
>>
>> Yes. And also: do you support Jeanette Hofmann to be vice-chair.
>>
>> jeanette
>>
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