Section V: Elections and appointments
Article 33: Election of the President, the Vice-Presidents, the National Societies Members of the Governing Board, and the Appointment of the Chairs and the Members of the Constitutional Bodies |
| Periodicity |
1 |
Elections shall be held in ordinary sessions every four years. The appointments of the members of the Finance Commission, Youth Commission, Compliance and Mediation Committee and Election Committee shall be made in ordinary sessions every four years, not coinciding with elections of the President, Vice-Presidents and National Societies members of the Governing Board. |
| Term of office |
2 |
The term of office of all elected and appointed positions is four years. It begins at the close of the session of the General Assembly at which the incumbents have been elected/appointed and expires at the close of the session of the General Assembly which elects/appoints their successors. |
| President |
3 |
The General Assembly elects the President in a personal capacity. A person who has served two consecutive four- year terms as President is not eligible to stand again for election until a further four-year term has elapsed. |
| Vice- Presidents |
4 |
The General Assembly elects four National Societies, one from each of the four statutory regions established in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, for the purpose of each of them appointing a member of their National Society to the post of Vice-President for a period of four years. Once appointed, the Vice-Presidents shall serve in a personal capacity. |
| Societies members of the Board |
5 |
The General Assembly elects twenty National Societies as members of the Governing Board, respecting geographical distribution as set out in the Rules of Procedure. A National Society elected member of the Governing Board shall appoint one individual to serve as its representative on the Governing Board. The appointed individual should normally not be changed during the elected Society’s term of office. The National Societies of which the President or the Vice- Presidents are members must not be proposed for candidature to the Governing Board. |
| Rotation |
6 |
Any National Society elected for the purpose of appointing a Vice- President or a National Society member of the Governing Board and having served two consecutive four-year terms in either capacity or combinations thereof is not eligible to stand again for election until a further four-year term has elapsed. |
| Chair and members of the Finance Commission, Youth Commission, and Compliance and Mediation Committee |
7 |
The General Assembly shall appoint the Chair and members of the Finance Commission, Youth Commission and Compliance and Mediation Committee. Any person who has served two consecutive four-year terms as Chair or as member of any of these bodies shall not be eligible to stand again for election as Chair or as member of such body until a further four-year term has elapsed. |
| Election committee |
8 |
The General Assembly shall, on the proposal of the Governing Board, appoint the Chair of the Election Committee and four members, one from each of the four statutory regions. |
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