I still don’t understand how uncle pat was on the ballot after this mornings vote on A51. But at least he is gone now.
From what I understand, there was a discussion over the interpretation of the specific standing order for the nomination process*, and this never went to a vote on the request of Cookson to go straight to a vote between him and McQuaid.
On the one side – those who didn;t think he was nominated properly, on the basis that his home federation did do it (i.e. neither Ireland nor Switzerland) but on the other side, the opinion was that any federation of which you were a member could do so – and McQuaid is honorary member of a number of different federations – inc Thailand and Morocco.
I’d suggest that the constitution was intended to be taken in the spirit of the first interpretation, and that McQuaid’s nomination was not valid, not because of what it says in 51.1, but because of the stipulations around membership of the management committee and the representation of the different continents – there is no point in that including the president (which it does) if they are allowed to flip flop where they represent to where ever will support them – if he was president, would he count towards the European, the Asian or the African quota?