It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 Annual Electoral Meeting of the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs! The meeting is your opportunity to ask questions regarding the upcoming operational year’s operational plan and regulatory budget, and above all, vote on the candidates you believe are best suited to lead the association forward!
The positions up for election are President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, SAIA-representative, Heads of Career (2), Head of Travel, Head of UFMUN, Head of Radio, Heads of Activity (2), Heads of Lectures (2), Heads of PR (2), Editors-in-Chief (2), Web Editor-in-Chief and Head of the Debate Club.
If you have not previously applied for a board position, you are welcome to announce your candidacy at the meeting. To be eligible to be up for election according to the by-laws, you must have a valid membership. This can be acquired or renewed up until the day of the meeting.
Due to the current situation, we have decided to have the meeting online through the meeting system Zoom. In order to attend the meeting, you must sign up through the link below, deadline to do so is May 20th.
Sign up by using this link:
This procedure is necessary to ensure a free, fair, and transparent election. After you sign up you will receive a confirmation e-mail with more details. Seven days before the meeting, you will receive the meeting documents, procedures for the meeting as well as a Zoom-invitation. Furthermore, a detailed instruction will be provided at the start of the meeting so that everyone is comfortable with the technology involved. Make sure that you have a computer, a headset with a microphone and, if possible, a functioning web-cam. If you want to try your equipment and see how Zoom works, we will host a trial meeting May 21st. A Zoom invitation for this will be enclosed with the meeting documents.
In order to qualify for voting, at least 21 days must have passed since your membership was purchased. Motions may not be proposed to the electoral meeting – they should instead be raised at the ordinary annual meeting in the fall.
Please find the meeting documents for the upcoming Electoral Meeting for the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs on this link:
Please note that the link to the Zoom-meeting is in the meeting document ”Meeting Invitation – Electoral Meeting”.
Due to this meeting taking place online, there is quite a few meeting documents. You will find a document with descriptions of all meeting documents on this link:
We strongly encourage you to read the meeting documents.
Date: 25/5, 2020
Time: 17:30, be there at 17:00 so we can check your membership.
Location: Online, via Zoom
We hope to see you there!
//The Board of 2019-2020
