(ATR) It will take three vice presidents to lead the Pan American Sports Organization General Assembly.
Keith Joseph, PASO vice president from St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Carlos Arthur Nuzman, PASO vice president from Brazil and Ivar Sisniega, PASO vice president from Mexico will all rotate leadership duties for the Jan. 12 – 13 meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
The triumvirate will fill in for Mario Vazquez Rana. The Mexican businessman contracted pneumonia and while he is fully recovered, his doctors advised him not to travel while he finishes recuperating.
Around the Rings understands the power-sharing arrangement was agreed upon by the three VPs to show their mutual support for each other, and that all three regions of PASO endorse the plan. ATR is also told there is little to read into their deal, as all of PASO was taken aback by Vazquez Rana’s announcement he will not make this week’s General Assembly.
While the display of unity may be a positive development, it does contravene the PASO statutes which say the first vice president, in this case Sisniega, will fill in if the PASO president is unable to lead the organization.
The three VPs had a test run for their shared leadership onJan. 11, taking turns chairing the PASO Executive Committee meeting.
Vazquez Rana, 82, will now miss his second straight PASO General Assembly.
PASO was supposed to convene in September of 2014 in Puerto Vallarta, but the meeting was cancelled when Vazquez Rana fell ill. The General Assembly then took place in Bangkok on the sidelines of the Association of National Olympic Committees meeting. PASO then decided to meet in Puerto Vallarta because the organization had already paid for use of the facilities at the CasaMagna resort.
The absence of Vazquez Rana means for the first time in 32 years, he will not open the PASO General Assembly.
The agenda for the General Assembly lacks much in the way of decision-making. The final report from the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, now six months away, is the major item up for discussion.
Written and reported in Puerto Vallarta by Ed Hula III.
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