Former Secretary of State indicates that there is another notarized document and this does not contain the first point related to the formation of the Electoral Commission.
On September 4 at the assembly of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE), with a final vote of the president of this body, Augusto Moran, the former swimmer Jorge Delgado Panchana placeholder image He was elected as the successor of the also Vice Minister of Sports in the government of Rafael Correa.
After the election process, several leaders who accompanied Morán in his administration joined Delgado’s list, such as John Zambrano and Miguel NácerTo date, it has not been possible to prepare a joint act between those who fulfilled the functions as secretary of the COE, Andrea Sotomayor, and President Morán.
Opposing positions on what happened in the assembly have not allowed the minutes to be signed and sent to the Ministry of Sports for the recognition of the current directory, although the International Olympic Committee (COI), through its president, Thomas Bach, gave approval for the election of Delgado.
Sotomayor points out that she has already prepared the minutes and forwarded it to Augusto Morán, who would not you agree at various detailed points; In addition, there is another notarized document, which Delgado’s group defends, and the one that Sotomayor questions because the facts are not recorded, according to her, ‘just as they happened’.
“Within my functions as general secretary of the COE, it is clear that I am notary (public faith) of the actions that occur around the general assembly and board sessions of this organism. Based on this, I can certify that the following happened in the general assembly of the COE, on September 4, ”explains the also Secretary of Sports in the Lenín Moreno government.
Sotomayor indicates: “The first item on the agenda approved by the assembly was not addressed; that is, the appointment by the chamber of the Electoral Commission, whose members should be independent and have no interest in the process. What the president of the COE said at that time was that, on the night before the election, the lists had designated the aforementioned commission, which was made up of Eng. Julio Ramirez (candidate from list 1), Lauro Cedeño (member of the chamber with voice and vote) and a notary ”.
The former official adds: “As you can see, not only that the order of the day was breached, but that the statute was violated of the COE since the assembly did not elect the Commission and those who appointed it outside the statute integrated it with people who had a direct interest in the election. This is stated in the minutes that I sent to President Morán on September 28, duly signed by me ”.
Regarding the voting process, Sotomayor questions that “after registering a tie in the election, what corresponded was to vote again. The art. 27 of the COE statute says that the list with half plus 1 of the votes will be proclaimed of the assembly. It was argued that before the tie, the president of the COE had a casting vote according to art. 16, before which the international observer allowed the President Morán vote for the second time. What the art. 16 is that the president of the COE has a casting vote only in ordinary or extraordinary assemblies, but September 4 was not of that type, but was of elections, as stated in the call and in the corresponding regulations that were used by the same COE for call in September”.
The current secretary of the COE, who was also a candidate on the list of Danilo Carrera, who was seeking the presidency of the COE, adds: “The international observer was warned of this by the advisor of one of the lists; but, assuming decision-making functions, granted the casting vote to the president of the COE violating the statute of this institution, with the result that we all already know (Jorge Delgado, winner). A reference to this also appears in the minutes sent on September 28, 2021 to President Morán ”.
Sotomayor emphasizes that “it is necessary to indicate that mutilated the vote to the Ecuadorian federations of surfing, mountaineering and sports dance, that being part of the program of the Olympic Games by virtue of which they had two votes, they were considered as excluded from said program and they were made to vote with only one vote ”.
“The act sent to President Morán on September 28 of this year coincides for the most part with the notarial act raised for this purposeIf we confront both documents, we will find that in the first one the lack of treatment of the first point of the call is omitted, which does not mean that what I affirmed, in the sense that that issue was not dealt with, ceases to be true “, refers the COE official.
Finally, Sotomayor clarifies that “if President Morán does not sign the act that I already sent him, let it be known and approved by the general assembly of the COE as it should be.” (D)
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