The 6th Fondacio Congress , which has been open for a year, continues. After an initial phase devoted to meetings on each continent, from January to August 2022, the preparation of the next term of office is now underway. Then, around a hundred delegates and guests will meet in Togo , from April 29 to May 7, 2023, for the launch of the new term of office.
Selection of a co-presidential team
The Congress met on Thursday, January 19, 2023, to vote on a motion concerning the constitution of a co-presidential team for Fondacio. The motion was passed by a large majority: 90% of the votes cast (75 ballots in favor, out of 83 voters). Thus, it is indeed a team of co-presidents who will take over the management of the association from May. This team will be composed of three to five people with complementary profiles. One of them will assume the role of president in the legal and canonical sense of the term (according to the statutes of Fondacio ).
How to constitute it?
With this first motion adopted, the Congress was asked to vote on three other motions detailing the election process. One of these motions concerned the updating of the list of eligible persons, comprising 82 names. Another, on the four stages of the process of electing the co-presidency:
- First step: each country chooses up to five people from the list of eligible people. The Fondacio Council also chooses five. They transmit their choices directly to the GAD (discernment assistance group).
- Second step: the GAD counts the votes obtained. It calls the people and supports their individual and collective discernment.
- Third stage: one or more teams are presented to the delegates before the meeting in Togo.
- Fourth step: it is, or they are, submitted to the vote of the delegates.
Finally, a last motion concerned the vote of confidence in the GAD. The Fondacio Council adopted all of these motions.
Next steps
Thus, the consultation of the councils of each country and of the Fondacio Council has been launched. The responses can be sent to the GAD until February 3.
Then, from February to April, the GAD will call the chosen people and accompany them to discern. The team (or teams) will be presented to the delegates at the end of April, at the latest, before the election of the co-presidency of Fondacio and its Council, during phase 3 of the Congress in Togo.
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