The Pancyprian Constituent Assembly of PDOED takes place from tomorrow, December 13 to the 15 of the month.
According to the PDPA, with the proposed changes the Board of Directors aims to modernise the statutes of the organisation and upgrade the way it operates, with a view to making it more flexible and efficient.
It notes that today Monday an Online Informative General Meeting of the Members of the Organization will be held.[/B]
The proposed changes concern Article 26.2 (Electoral System: Creation of new Bodies in the Organization which will be elected by the regular members), namely, Pancyprian Council of 100 General Delegates (PCGC), 13-member Executive Board (EBB), District Committees (DC) composed of 7 to 11 members, depending on the population of the Province, while the term of office of the elected GAs from 3 years, becomes 4 years as well as all elected Bodies in the PODD, Implementation of simple proportional representation in the election of the above Bodies of the PODD.
It is also proposed that the allocation and compilation of the seats provided for in the New Statutes shall be done by a proportional system of determining the seats, starting the allocation from the first movement/combination, based on the election results, as detailed in the accompanying documents.
Along with the above changes, the Board of Directors of the PDED requests authorization from the Pancyprian Constituent Assembly of Regular Members to proceed to postpone the next elections to May 2024.
In the meantime, the WPAA Board of Directors assumes the responsibility, before the grassroots, as with the extension of its term of office, to complete all other procedures foreseen for the change of the Statutes as soon as possible, with decisions to be taken at Statutory Assemblies of the WPAA and the Board.
He notes that the Board of Directors, at its meeting on Thursday 8/12/22, also considered a proposal from a member of the PAGA, which was submitted within the time limit (8 days before the Statutory General Assembly), but without complying with provision 35.2 ("signatures of 25 members").
Therefore, the Board considered that this proposal did not meet the requirements to be put before the members at the Statutory General Assembly for a vote.
The PDOA stresses that the presence of all PDOA members at Statutory General Assemblies is particularly important because an increased majority is needed to approve the proposed changes (more than 25% of the members, i.e. more than 1625 positive votes).
According to the announcement, the forthcoming changes will be in place for many years to come and will largely determine how the organisation will support and advocate for the Branch. For the first time since the establishment of the existing constitution in 1981, there is a comprehensive proposal, which has emerged through discussion and agreement of all Movements.
Therefore, the Board of Directors of the organisation calls on all members of the PDOA to approve the resolution, thus giving the green light for the process of modernising and upgrading the organisation to proceed.
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