Journalists flocked to the Teachers Club to register for the midterm elections

The Seventh Day Television presented a live broadcast of the mid-term elections for the Syndicate of Journalists, which will be held on Friday at the headquarters of the Teachers Syndicate Club, which will be held on the seat of the president and 6 members.

Khaled Miri, head of the committee overseeing the midterm elections at the Press Syndicate, said that the committee has worked to implement all precautionary measures to prevent corona virus, which start from signing temperature measurements on incoming journalists and taking all means to distribute committees and reduce numbers to achieve social distancing.

 

Journalists began registering in the lists of the General Assembly of the Syndicate of Journalists, at exactly ten o'clock this morning, Friday, to hold midterm elections for the position of President and 6 members of the Syndicate Council, as soon as the legal quorum is completed in the presence of 25% + 1.

 

Registration is scheduled to continue until twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and registration is extended for another hour by a decision of the committee supervising the elections, and that in the event that the legal quorum for the meeting of the general assembly is completed with the presence of (25% +1) of the members paying for the union’s participation, the meeting begins immediately to discuss the schedule Business, which includes the approval of the report of the Bar Council from March 2020 until February 2021, the approval of the final account for the year ending on December 31, 2019, as well as the end of December 31, 2020, and the approval of the draft estimated budget for the year 2021.

 

Elections will take place in 32 electoral committees inside the Teachers Club headquarters on the island in addition to one committee at the branch union headquarters in Alexandria.

 

In the event that the legal quorum is not complete, the General Assembly will be postponed until Friday, April 16, and its meeting will be valid in the presence of (25%) of the members who paid for participation. In the midterm renewal elections for the Journalists Syndicate, 6 candidates will compete for the president’s seat and 56 candidates for membership in the Council.