Push to give Haya a third term as FEI president
Moves are afoot to engineer a tertiary term for Princess Haya every bit president of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI).
Under electrical current rules, the president must stand upward stand downward later on 2 four-year terms.
Haya is currently serving her minute term.
Britain’s Horse together with Hound magazine has reported on its website that at that spot are calls for a dominion alter to let a tertiary term.
It quotes an FEI spokesman every bit proverb that regional grouping chairs had submitted “a formal unanimous asking that the FEI statutes endure modified together with then that the term of the president may include 1 additional four-year term”.
Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) main executive Jim Ellis confirmed to Horsetalk that the number of a tertiary term had been aired.
“ESNZ is aware of the give-and-take held at the recent FEI Bureau coming together inwards Lausanne, which considered the potential of amending the statutes to let for a tertiary consecutive presidential term,” he said.
“ESNZ volition reckon its rank together with that of the Oceania Equestrian Federation when to a greater extent than formal documentation is received prior to the FEI General Assembly inwards November.”
Any proposed alter allowing a tertiary term would remove to become to a vote earlier the General Assembly inwards Montreaux, Switzerland, inwards November. This would let Haya to correspond re-election the next year.
Princess Haya, who is married to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, became president inwards 2006.
Her commencement term was non without controversy, especially over a highly contentious displace to relax rules some the residues of for sure drugs inwards horses. Many federations saw the force every bit a bid to abandon the zero-tolerance policy that had long been inwards place.
A somewhat embarrassed FEI ultimately abandoned the force together with the FEI has since firmly entrenched its Clean Sport policy.
Haya saw off 2 European challengers to win a minute term every bit president inwards Nov 2010.
The rattling fact she faced challengers to her re-election showed a pregnant depth of opposition, close of it centered on the commutation equestrian nations of Europe.
The princess held several trump cards, with them her standing inwards the Olympic movement.
Her membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a non an automatic correct that falls upon the FEI president. She is 1 of fifteen presidents with 27 international Olympic sport federations elected to IOC membership yesteryear that group.
She has proved to endure an effective advocate for equestrian sport at Olympic level.
Her connections extend good beyond the sporting sphere. Her international profile outshines those of pretty much whatever president of whatever international sporting body. Many nations value that profile.
She has been instrumental inwards obtaining high-value sponsorship deals for the FEI, including multimillion-dollar backing from the Saudi Equestrian Fund for the Nations Cup.
Sources suggests many nations convey been impressed yesteryear Haya’s performance this term, with improvements inwards the functioning of the FEI together with her strong advocacy at Olympic level.
Nations, inwards pondering whether to back upward a tertiary term for the president inwards November, may too endure wondering who would endure a plumbing equipment successor for Haya should she stand upward downward inwards 2014, every bit required nether electrical current rules.
All factors would suggest the tide may endure flowing strongly inwards favour of a tertiary presidential term.
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