Theos-Talk Archives (April 2009 Message tt00017)

Dear Katinka

I have answered your first question fully in my reply to MKR
I am sorry I am a bit slow with this but I needed to check every
fact that I was presenting before I posted.

To answer your second question, the General Secretary of
South Africa was present at the General Council meeting.

The election of the Vice President was conducted by postal ballot.
The result of the voting was 16 for Linda Olivera, and 15 against,
there was 1 abstention and 3 members neglected to vote.

There was also another vote in favour of Linda Oliveira which was
received on the date the result was declared, this was not counted. 

Best wishes
Keith



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Katinka Hesselink" <mail@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Keith,
> 
> Thanks for giving us the opportunity to ask questions regarding the General Council sessions this winter. I think among all the innuendo there were only two points which cause concern:
> 
> 1) Did the Indian Section get an extra week to collect the votes in the election for the TS presidency? (If you don't have an answer for this one, because it's about things that happened before your time as secretary - I understand that)
> 
> 2) Was the election of the Vice President influenced by Radha Burnier keeping the representative of the South African section out of the General Council Meeting? [I fully understand that electing John Algeo was not a workable solution, but still, it would be nice to know there were no irregularities to the vote.]
> 
> Best wishes,
> Katinka Hesselink
> 
> http://www.allconsidering.com/
> http://www.katinkahesselink.net/
>