The weightlifting federations of the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Germany are demandingthe immediate re-instatement of the "independent members" of the Reform and Governance Commission (RGC) so that "they may complete their valuable work in aid of reform" in the International Weightlifting Federation.
The demand was made in a letter sent this week to the Interim IWF President Michael Irani and the IWF Executive Board.
Click here to read the letter in its entirety.
Irani, in an interview with Around the Rings published earlier this week, addressed claims that the IWF shut down the RGC before it could complete its work.
"The IWF Executive Board did not decide to "dismantle" the RGC. The fact is that its mandate was to expire at the end of February 2021," the interim IWF president told ATR.
"The adoption of a new Constitution goes through three phases: elaboration by a Commission; preparation and validation of proposals to the Congress and deliberation and vote in front of the Congress.
"In that sequence of events, the RGC was originally meant to be in charge of the first phase. It performed its mandate remarkably so that for the second phase, the IWF Executive Board essentially has to prepare the necessary documentation for the Congress – which is itself a huge task because of time constraints – without changing the text of the document prepared by the RGC. As to the third phase (deliberation and vote in front of the Congress), the IWF intends to invite the RGC Independent Members to attend the Congress and be available if requests for clarification are needed."
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