[Lnc-business] Fwd: IALP Conference Report

[Nicholas Sarwark]

All,

Geoff Neale's report from the founding International Alliance of
Libertarian Parties conference.  My apologies for not forwarding it to
the list earlier.

-Nick


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From: Geoffrey Neale <liber8or at austin.rr.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:02 AM
Subject: IALP Conference Report
To: chair at lp.org


My apologies for the delay in getting this to you.



The March 6, 2015 founding of the International Alliance of
Libertarian Parties was a great success.



In attendance were representatives from the libertarian parties of
Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the United
Kingdom, France, the United States, and the Czech Republic.
Participating via Skype were South Africa and Russia.



Unfortunately, the Czech Republic had not approved of the charter
prior to the meeting, so they acted as observers in official voting,
but were free to otherwise participate.



I had been provisional chair through the official founding, and was
approved by the body to chair the meeting, which I did.



The meeting allotted time was only about six hours, including lunch,
so the priority was placed on making decisions. We consciously decided
to avoid wordsmithing on site, so that we could find our points of
agreement, and craft actual motions later. However, certain charter
changes were made which were most necessary.



The decisions we came to include:



·         Official domicile for registration and banking purposes will
be in Switzerland, which required us to change the charter to specify
this, and to include a dissolution distribution of assets, which is
required in Switzerland.

·         The official language will be English (not American).

·         Changes to the charter will require a 2/3 approval of all
current members.

·         Changes to the rules will require a majority of all current members.

·         Business of the assembly may be conducted in person or via
email ballots.  Attendance by members at an in person meeting may
include electronic attendance.

·         Email ballots will be up to 30 days in length, or until the
outcome of interim ballots has definitively determined the outcome.

·         In person meetings of the assembly will require a 90 day
notice via email.

·         The provisional name of the International Alliance of
Libertarian Parties has been made official.

·         The charter now provides  for an Executive Committee of from
three to seven, which must include Chair, Treasurer and Secretary.

·         Members of the Executive Committee are not required to be
official representatives, but must be affiliated with the member
parties.

·         There is no limit on how many Executive Committee members
may be from a single member party.

·         The term of office of the Executive Committee is two years.

·         Any decision of the Executive Committee will require a
majority vote of the number of positions on the Executive committee.

·         Vacancies in the Executive Committee can be filled
temporarily by the Executive Committee. Permanent election will be
conducted by email ballot.

·         The Executive Committee was formed with five positions
filled, which are:

o   Chairman – Geoffrey Neale (US)

o   Secretary – Hilary Hackleman (UK)

o   Treasurer – Jean Francois Nimsgern (France)

o   Vice-Chair – Guy Montrose (UK)

o   Vice-Chair – Daniel Martinez (Spain)



I brought up the topic of rules of procedure, but I’m afraid almost
all of the representatives said their party did not use any formalized
rules, and they were skeptical. What I suggested was that I invite the
submission of an argument in favor of adopting an external
parliamentary document for the members to consider, and they are all
amenable to consider the subject at a later date.



I should note that when I asked the representatives whether or not
they had binding authority to act on behalf of their parties, all said
that  they had such authority. I think the LPUS should formally
consider what authority it wishes to grant to its representative. For
the record, just about every decision was made without objection.  My
voting for or against any of the decisions would have been
inconsequential.



That’s about all I have to report on the meeting.



Since this meeting, we have voted and approved the inclusion of the
Czech party, and are currently voting on Norway.  We expect votes to
start relatively soon on another party in Switzerland, and also a
party from the Ivory Coast.  We had a representative at the European
SFL event in Berlin, and the response to the IALP was positive.



Geoffrey Neale
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