Dear Member,
At a meeting held on Tuesday 21st January 2025, the Executive Committee resolved to hold this year’s Annual General Meeting on Friday 9th May 2025. The purpose of this meeting is to elect the Members of the Executive Committee.
For this purpose, the Executive Committee has by resolution appointed the Nominations Committee in terms of the Statute, and whose members will be:
- Joanna Agius (Chairperson)
- Beatrice Gatt
- Antonio Grech
- Marion Pace Asciak
- Louiselle Vassallo.
Recommendations to the Nominations Committee of candidates for the following offices may be made within forty-five (45) days from today:
- Members of the Executive Committee
Recommendations can be made by email to repubblika.nc@nullgmail.com or by mail addressed to “Nominations Committee, Repubblika, 29, Pjazza tal-Knisja, Mqabba”.
The following are the main rules regulating the election of the Members of the Executive Committee of Repubblika. These are the rules which will be applied in the special meeting:
Ninety (90) days before the annual membership meeting, the Executive Committee shall appoint a Nominations Committee comprised of five (5) Active members. The names of the members of the Nominations Committee shall be published on the Association’s website and sent via email to all members which email shall invite members to make recommendations to the Nominations Committee of candidates for the offices vacant in terms of the Statute and/or of the office of Executive Committee Member within forty-five (45) days.
The Nominations Committee shall publish the names of the nominees for each position on the Association’s website.
Not less than thirty (30) days prior to the Annual General Meeting, other persons may be nominated by petition signed by at least ten (10) members in good standing, and such nomination shall be accepted by the Nominations Committee and placed on the ballot, having published the full list of nominees not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting.
Voting by the procedure established by the Executive Committee in consultation with the Nominations Committee shall conclude no later than one (1) day prior to the date of the Annual General Meeting. Election shall be by the ‘first past the post’ method and voting shall be supervised by the Nominations Committee.
The Executive Committee shall be made up of no more than thirteen (13) individuals and shall include the President, the Vice-President, the Immediate Past President (the ex officio members), the Secretary General and the Treasurer, provided that at no time shall the number of individuals making up the Executive Committee be less than five (5) and in the event that nominations are not sufficient to make up this number, the process of dissolution of the Association shall be put into effect by the Executive Committee.
All Executive Committee Members shall be members of the Association in good standing. All Executive Committee Members, including the President, the Vice President and the Immediate Past President shall hold office for two (2) years, unless sooner terminated in accordance with this Statute, provided that (i) if the post of President becomes vacant eleven (11) months or more before his/her term expires; or (ii) if at any time the President submits his/her resignation from the post of President and declares in his/her resignation letter that his/her resignation shall become effective from eleven (11) months or more before his/her term expires, a General Meeting shall be summoned to elect a new President.
The Executive Committee may elect or appoint Officers, other than the President and Vice-President, including one or more Assistant Secretaries and one or more Assistant Treasurers, as it shall deem desirable, and such Officers to have authority and perform the duties prescribed from time to time by the Executive Committee. Any two (2) or more offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of President, Vice-President and Secretary General.
The Officers of the Association, except the President and Vice-President, shall be selected annually by the Executive Committee from its own membership at the first meeting following the Annual Meeting of Members.
Kind regards,
Frank Piscopo
Secretary General