Nomination period for PNGOC closes today

NOMINATIONS for the election of executive board members to the PNG Olympic Committee (PNGOC) is are set to close at 5pm today.
PNGOC reminded members of the deadline to submit nomination forms for the positions of president, senior vice-president, male and female vice-presidents, treasurer, legal adviser and fundraising chairman.
Elections for these positions will take place at the annual general assembly next Saturday. These will be the first elections held after the 2016 adoption of the new constitution, which saw changes to the provisions guiding elections.
These changes include voting to be done by exhaustive ballot, with members from Olympic sports having two votes, while members of non-Olympic sports, International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and life members have one.
“A majority of the member-nominated candidates of the executive committee must be nominated by Olympic sports,” PNGOC said in statement on Monday.
“A member national federation is not eligible to vote if its annual membership fee is unpaid or if they are not incorporated with the Investment Promotion Authority.
“Provisions for proxy voting do exist where a member may appoint in writing a life member, IOC member or the chairman of the meeting to be the proxy of the member, and to attend and vote on behalf of the member.”
With PNGOC now having a limit of three terms (12 years) for board members, several incumbents will be ineligible to contest these elections.
“Terms will also be staggered to avoid the entire committee retiring at once,” the statement said.
“To achieve this, the senior vice-president, and male and female vice-presidents will be elected for an initial period of two years (until 2022), with the terms thereafter being four years.”