FISTF GENERAL SECRETARY LETTER TO THE NATIONS
From: FISTF General Secretary Leonidas Koutroumanos
To: National Associations Chairmen/National Associations G. Secretary/Players
October 13th, 2012
Subject: Request for new FISTF elections
To: FISTF National Association’s presidents
Dear All,
I am sending this mail as the General Secretary of FISTF and I want to inform you about the current situation.
Until today I made a lot of efforts to keep me and the current BoD of FISTF secure. I tryied to keep unity and I didn’t stop to work for the good of our sport even there were days that my health or my work didn’t let me to do.
But now the situation is unstable, I cannot doing my work and the work of the last 15 months that came from Mr Luis Horta, Mr.Fred Vulpes and myself is in danger.
In the last days I discovered that the current President of FISTF is working behind my back in purpose and he wants only to save his position. He is trying to cover me and FISTF statutes with a new idea, the idea of having Secretary for the President and in order to speak for him when the president isn’t there. This is an unbeliavable decision that came from the current President in order to cover my duties and my work.
Many days I am asking from the current President to give me the access for the website and for the group at facebook in order to update it....nothing did until now.
Today I saw that the website start to be updated but without my valuable help, work and informations that I have.
After the last letter of Mr. Fred Vulpes and after the last decisions of the President I have no other solution except one.
As stated in its Statutes, the aims of FISTF are:
• To promote the sport table football in all possible ways.
• To develop friendly relationships between officials and players of National Associations by promoting the organization of matches of the sport table football in every area.
• To manage the sport table football by taking all necessary statutory and regulatory measures and decisions for the sports, administrative and financial management of the sport table football al the world level.
• To take all necessary measures to prevent breach of the Statutes and regulations of FISTF.
• To settle and adjudicate any controversy, dispute or claim arising between National Associations by enacting statutory, regulatory or other appropriate measures.
Twenty year after the creation of the FISTF these aims are not completely fulfilled due of several kind of internal problems always related with personal or commercial interests and influences, involving different sources.
At the current time we reached a new crossroad, on which we need to find our way again.
There are several different paths to follow and shall be the nations who must choose that way. However it is very important to reflect properly about which is the correct one from the followings:
• Maintain the current situation without elections until 2015 as requested by the current FISTF ad interim president, with several not elected members, and including new members to replace those who have resigned.
• Request new elections in order to find a new FISTF Board whose main task is putting FISTF back to the right track, supported by all national associations and creating a big unity movement around the FISTF.
Nevertheless, we need to look back to the past with real attention and we must avoid committing the same mistakes done on the last 20 years. Ignore this it will be the same as pushing FISTF to the abyss that will take it to its extinction.
There is a single solution for the FISTF and this solution shall involve all the nations, which are really interested in having a real and fair sport, in a unified community around the same ideals and dreams.
We all know that the majority of the national associations are crossing difficult times, and some of them have serious internal problems.
However, these nations must be aware that helping FISTF to find the proper way, this it may help them to solve their internal problems too.
Only a unified and global community will survive in the future. Thus, the nations must understand that only a strong FISTF with a strong Board of Directors can really help our sport.
This is the moment for the nations to act and to make their voices heard.
National associations must request new elections under the FISTF Statutes. Only a third of the FISTF members will be necessary to force the situation of having new democratic and fair elections for the FISTF Board of Directors within 3 months time.
Thus, we invite the nations to join us on the request for new FISTF elections. Please send us your response as soon as possible.
Yours in Sport,
Leonidas Koutroumanos
PATFAP President
General Secretary of FISTF
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