Elections for the 55th President of the Korea Football Association blocked by the court will be held on Jan. 23, re-drawing electors citing provisional disposition
Jan 09, 2025
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The KFA Election Commission announced on the 9th that `The election for the 55th president of the Korea Football Association will be held on January 23rd.' The Electoral College will also be newly formed to prepare a list of electors.
The draw will take place on the 12th. The list of electors will be confirmed on the 16th after a three-day period from the next day when the electors read the list of electors to check and correct their personal information.
The confirmed list will be provided to candidates, and the campaign period will be held from the 16th when the voter list is confirmed to the 22nd, the day before the election day.
The KFA Election Commission expressed regret over the court's decision to suspend the election on the 7th, despite the fact that it has conducted election preparations from a neutral standpoint without violating the relevant regulations," he said.
The court cited Huh Jung-moo's request for an injunction against the chairman's election ban against the KFA on the 7th, a day before the 55th KFA presidential election. The presidential election was scheduled to take place on the 8th.
In the 55th KFA presidential election, Chung Mong-gyu, the current chairman, is running for the fourth term, and Heo Jung-moo, a visiting professor of sports record analysis at the Graduate School of Records and Information Science in the Shinmunseon Myungji University, and Heo Jung-moo, former chairman of the Hana Citizen Board of Daejeon, jumped into the competition
Candidate Huh filed an injunction against the KFA on the 30th of last month, asking the KFA to ban the election, saying that the election for the president of the association is being conducted unfairly. On the 6th, a hearing date for the provisional injunction was held, and candidate Huh and the KFA engaged in a court battle. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Huh.
The court found that "there is a grave procedural offence which is to be acknowledged to have significantly violated the fairness of the election and thereby affected the election process"." It also pointed out that the majority of the electors were formed through a lottery process where transparency and fairness were not confirmed. He added that he could not confirm whether the committee was organized in accordance with the articles of association and election management regulations because he did not disclose who was appointed as a member of the election management committee.
Regarding the decrease in the number of electors from 194 to 173, he also said that if there is no majority vote in the first round, it is likely to affect the decision of candidates to go to the runoff election. And if the election is held, there is a high possibility that a subsequent dispute will be triggered over its effectiveness. The court noted that considering these points comprehensively, the need for preservation to accept the application for provisional injunction is also clarified.
Candidate Heo's side argued that the KFA unfairly proceeded with the election schedule for the president of the association. There is also no way to confirm the composition of the Election CommissionThe executive of Chung Mong-gyu, president of the association, who is running for the third and fourth terms, is in charge of the election, and it is questionable whether it can be regarded as a normal election by other candidates unless the election process is publicly revealed.
The court turned a blind eye to the KFA, which refuted "It is distortion to proceed for a specific person."
◇ The following is a full text of the position of the KFA Election Commission
Although the Korea Football Association's Election Management Committee has been preparing for the election from a neutral standpoint without violating related regulations, it is regrettable that the court decided to suspend the election on January 7, but it respects the court's decision and expresses regret for causing a setback in the election schedule.
On the 8th, the Election Commission decided on the schedule for the 55th presidential election of the Korea Football Association and the preparation of the electoral list as follows.
The 55th presidential election of the Korea Football Association will be held on January 23, and the detailed schedule is as follows. The electors' list will be redrawn on January 12, and the electors' list will be confirmed on January 16 after three days from the next day to check and correct their personal information. The confirmed list is provided to candidates, and the campaign period is from the 16th when the voter list is confirmed to the 22nd, the day before Election Day.
Regarding the election operation, I will explain the contents below.
1. Re-drawing and Observing the Electoral College
The electors' lottery will be held under the presence of the election management committee using verified programs by outside companies specializing in election-related lottery work, and each candidate's representative (one election clerk) can attend. The re-drawing electors are those who fall under Article 8 (1) 2 to 14 of the Presidential Election Management Regulations.
2. Prepare a preliminary list of athletes, leaders, etc
As the court pointed out that 21 people who did not agree to provide personal information were excluded from the list of electors at the time of writing the list of electors, there was a lack of efforts to supplement the electors through re-drawing, and the loss of a significant number of electors is likely to affect the results of the vote. The Election Commission will draw up a preliminary list of three times for the electors (athletes, leaders, referees, etc.) set forth in Article 8 (Composition of Electoral College). This will prevent the number of electors from being lost and ensure that the electors are organized as much as possible.
3. Share the list of committees with candidates
The Election Commission, which was formed by the resolution of the association's board of directors on December 9 last year, did not disclose the list of members to the outside to prevent external intervention in election affairs, but in respect of the court's decision on January 7, the list and career of the members were delivered to each of the three candidates so that they could be confirmed.
4. Regarding the qualifications of pre-registered candidates
The Election Commission confirms that already registered candidates' eligibility for election candidates will remain until the newly set election date, as the change in the election date is based on the court's decision to strengthen fairness and transparency in the election process.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
