Cuba’s Eduardo Montenegro will serve as acting President of the Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) until elections are held at an Extraordinary General Assembly in 2018, the APC Executive Committee announced in Lima, Peru, on Saturday (18 November).
The decision to appoint Montenegro, who was previously APC Vice President, as acting President follows the passing of the previous President Jose Luis Campo on 16 October.
On Saturday, the APC Executive Committee also appointed the USA’s APC Member at Large Julie O’Neill Dussliere as Vice President and Nicaragua’s Dionicio Zeledon as Member at Large. Other previously elected Members at Large are Ecuador´s Bayron Lopez and Colombia´s Pedro Mejia.
O’Neill Dussliere's and Zeledon’s appointments are pending ratification by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board and next year’s APC Extraordinary General Assembly.
The APC is a committee under the governance of the IPC, whose constitution stipulates that in the absence of the President, or if required, the Vice President will take over the tasks of the President.
Campo passed away in his home city Mar del Plata, Argentina, on 16 October, after suffering a suspected heart attack while participating in a fundraising event. He was elected the APC’s founding President in 1997 and served two terms until 2005, when he was replaced by Brazil’s Andrew Parsons. Colombia’s Octavio Londono was President from 2009-2013. Campo was again voted President in 2013 and re-elected in 2017.
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Notes to the Editor
The Americas Paralympic Committee (APC) is the regional organisation, recognised as the sole regional representative of the Americas Region.
For further information, please contact Hernan Goldzycher, IPC Editorial Co-ordinator, on e-mail: hernan.goldzycher@paralympic.org or call +49 228 2097-218. Alternatively, please visit www.americasparalympic.org/.
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