Bureau elections
At the upcoming Congress, the following positions are up for election:
- 3 Vice-Presidents
- Treasurer
As per the deadline of Friday 3 October, the ALDE Party Secretariat received the following nominations:
Vice-Presidency candidates
- Dan Barna (USR, Romania) - Candidate letter
- Malik Azmani (VVD, The Netherlands) - Candidate letter
- Eva Kjer Hansen (Venstre, Denmark) - Candidate letter
Treasurer candidate
- David Burke (Fianna Fáil, Ireland) - Candidate letter
Voting
Delegates will be able to cast their ballot for the Bureau elections during the windows advertised on the programme.
If you have a proxy vote, you will receive two voting codes to cast your ballots in the elections.
Once you have submitted your vote, you will not be able to change it.
Please note that Elections will be conducted via the ALDE app:
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As stipulated in the ALDE Party Statutes, candidates for Bureau “must be a member of, and be nominated by, their full member party of the Association that has paid its annual membership fee. The candidate’s Party leader, Secretary General or President, must send a signed letter of nomination addressed to the Secretary General.”
“The Bureau shall consist of 11 members, elected by the Congress, amongst whom a President, nine Vice Presidents and a Treasurer. Members of the Bureau cannot serve more than three consecutive mandates of two years each in the same position and no more than eight years in total. No more than 1/3 of the total number of Bureau members can be non-EU. Member parties shall be mindful of the aim for a gender balanced Bureau. The President and the Treasurer shall come from an EU Member State”.
Resolutions and Urgency Resolutions
Guidelines and online platform
The resolution guidelines with information about submitters, eligibility, format and co-signatories are available in the Member's Portal.
Please review them before drafting or submitting resolutions.
The online platform Open Slides will be activated shortly and International Officers will be able to upload draft resolutions upon registration on this platform or can use their access codes from previous years.
According to ALDE Party statutes, draft resolutions must be submitted no later than two months prior to the Congress.
submissions
The deadline is Friday 05 September at 23:59 CET, and all submissions must be made via the online platform
consolidated dossier
Member parties will receive a consolidated dossier of all submitted draft resolutions by Friday 12 September.
Amendments
Amendments to draft resolutions must then be submitted by Friday 26 September at 23:59 CET, also via the online platform
dossier
By Friday 03 October, member parties will receive a dossier of all submitted amendments.
ranking vote
After this, delegations, via their international officer, will be invited to a ranking vote to determine the order upon which the submitted resolutions will be considered and voted in Congress. The ranking vote will take place online between three and one week before the Congress.
Urgency Resolutions
Draft Urgency resolutions must address issues or developments that have arisen since the deadline for regular resolutions (05 September).
They cannot exceed 300 words and must be submitted via the online platform Open Slides by Thursday 23 October at 12:00 CET.
Deadlines
5 September
23:59 CET
submissions
12 September
consolidated dossier
26 September
23:59 CET
Amendments
3 October
dossier
3 - 20 October
ranking vote
23 October
12:00 CET
Urgency Resolutions
Questions
For questions about submitting resolutions or amendments, or for help with online platform access, please contact: Daniela Morales Garcia, ALDE Party Senior Policy Adviser, at dmoralesgarcia@aldeparty.eu
Delegations
Delegation lists will close at 12:00 CET on Friday 17 October.
After this point, changes can only be made in the statutory exceptional cases of flight cancellation, sickness, or unforeseen political developments. In such cases, please contact the ALDE Party Secretariat immediately events@aldeparty.eu
Failure of the International Officer to assign all voting rights by this deadline will result in that delegation being unable to exercise unallocated votes.
To review the number of votes each delegation is entitled to, please download the delegation list here.
Timetable and Congress Deadlines
Please find a full overview of Congress deadlines available to download here.