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SUCCESSION PLANNING

Exactly what happened at the 2016 Moscow General Assembly, when Lisin was being lined up as the 'President-Elect' for the 2018 General Assembly, a new position that was/still is not identified in the ISSF Constitution at the time (and still isn't); this new proposed position was included in the changes of the proposed Constitution. Luckily the proposed Constitution was (surprisingly only narrowly) defeated as it did not achieve the 2/3 majority vote by Members. A similar change to the ISSF Constitution was also defeated at the 2012 London General Assembly.

The link to the site where the 2014 and 2016 General Assembly minutes can be downloaded is here:-

ISSF report
I've also added these documents here, with my own highlights. In particular, my mini-notes are as follows, in particular the rapid rise of Lisin (from EC Member to VP to potential President within 4 years: that's 'succession planning'!):-

2014 Minutes:-
p11: Lisin is only a member of the Executive Committee
p41: Lisin is proposed as ISSF Vice President
p46/47: Lisin elected ISSF Vice President

2016 Minutes:-
p34: Lisin is in charge of the proposed new Constitution (where the position of 'President-Elect' is introduced for the first time, a position that he is widely held to subsequently inherit; and no, I don't have the actual document that states this, but I have it on good grounds from many sources via private message; if only the ISSF would publish ALL their documents in a TIMELY fashion, not 2 years after the meetings  )
p35: 'secret' voting for proposed Constitution (? was this required secondary to intimidation?  )
p37: 2/3 majority not achieved and the proposed Constitution rejected, again (take a hint guys  )

Lots of other highlighted stuff; there seem to be many legal cases against the ISSF by member Federations at any one time; and many Federations are either suspended or not eligible to vote; so there is a lot of unhappiness within the ISSF, and there is certainly no harmony or solidarity!

PS 1: please read the minutes from the Administrative Council meetings as well as from the General Assembly, all available in the above web link.
PS 2: I am not prepared to get into arguing about minutiae with any member here (this has been done to death on WTF, and we don't need to rehash the same old arguments); everyone needs to make up their own minds about what is really going on within the ISSF