The Management Board of the Polish Olympic Committee adopted a resolution recommending a individual named Andrzej Duda as a associate of the global Olympic Committee. The President, as it all points out, would like to be president of the MKOl after his word of office.
"This item was not on the agenda. He appeared at the very end as an component of the +current + point. No 1 had previously had any thought that specified a resolution would be voted on," said 1 of the members of the PKOl Board.
29 members of the board voted in favour of the resolution, 4 were against and six people abstained. The PKOl Board has 60 people.
"Many board members were absent today," noted the researcher.
President PKOl Radosław Piesiewicz indicated that president Duda is simply a individual devoted to olympism.
"It helps the Polish Olympic Committee very much, but it besides needs to be remembered that it moved very well in global structures. Many years of cooperation with my predecessor Andrzej Kraśnicki, many meetings with Mr president (MKOl – PAP) Thomas Bach, many conversations. I think it resulted in Mr Bach's decision that it would be good for Poland to issue specified a candidacy to a individual who is devoted to Polish olympicism," said Piesiewicz on TVN24.
“We hold our thumbs very tight. We did everything we could to study this candidacy. I am happy due to the fact that Mr Andrzej Kraśnicki will besides sign the letter of advice with me. The board made that decision. I am not hiding that it would be a very large diplomatic success if another Pole became a associate of the real ICC," he noted.
Currently, the Polish typical at the MKOl is Maja Włoszczowska, who has been active in the IKOl Competition Commission since 2021 and on this basis has the position of an IKOl member. Irena Szewińska was the last real Polish associate of IKOl from 1998 until her death in 2018.
Before that, Kazimierz Duke Lubomirski (1922-30), Ignacy Matuszewski (1928-39), Stanisław Rouppert (1931-46), Jerzy Loth (1948-61), and Włodzimierz Reczek (1961-2004) sat at the IKOL.
Andrzej Duda's second presidential word ends in August. The first session of the MKOl after the date at which it could be elected a associate of the MKOl is scheduled in February 2026 in Milan, on the occasion of the Winter Olympics. Formally, however, there is no obstacle to choosing the head of state. A session will be held in Greece in March 2025, but the main item will be the election of Bach's successor as president.
The full number of IOC members must not exceed 115, presently 111.
All members are elected for an eight-year renewable term. Members of the MKOl elected from 1967 to 1999 may service up to the age of 80 and elected after 1999 until the age of 70.
Among the 115 members of 70 is not related to any circumstantial function or office, 15 are representatives of the players, another 15 derives from the heads of the planet sports federations and the same from those in charge of the national Olympic committees or their continental associations.
As the first information about the adoption of the resolution on Dudy by the Polish National Council, he stated “The athletics Review”.
Source: PAP 
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