The people whom it’s even hard to call “activists” of our sport. During the World Armwrestling Championships, which have just begun in Brazil the WAF congress was supposed to take place. One of the point of the program are elections of the Federation authorities. One of the candidate is the President of the EAF Assen Hadjitodorow.

Assen was chosen for the next at the EAF Congress, Turing XXII European Championships, which took place in Poland (Gdansk).

I was observing the whole EAF Congress as a journalist, I taking notes of every sentence and it was all recorded on videos. The Congress, in the following votes executed the whole agenda including acceptance of the financial report. Each  successive step was put to the vote by the authorized delegates, whose mandates had already been checked.

At the end of the Congress none of the delegates made any additional proposal, no one  negated resolutions and decisions that were passed, including personal ones.

Whereas today, in Brazil during the proceedings of the EAF preceding the WAF Congress it turned out that a group which can simply be called saboteurs are calling into question the procedure of the election in Poland!

Fred Roy and sixteen other people who as a matter of fact seem to be disoriented and scared, took an initiative, which is said to be signed by 16 people, aiming at obstructing candidacy of Assen Hadjitodorow for the WAF authorities.

Why?

Under a veil of poor administration of the European Federation, under a veil of malpractice of democratic procedures during the election and wrong settlement of the Federation budget.

As a witness of the Congress and a participant of the organizational team of the EuroArm2012 I was able to observe the whole proceedings and the whole Championships. In my opinion all witnesses, all participants of the Congress, delegates of particular countries should reject all those rubbish!

Assen was chosen in democratic elections. The budget of the Federation was voted through. The evidence of that are protocols, video recordings and participants accounts. It can’t be call into question!

So what are the people who are questioning it guided by? Don’t delude yourselves! That’s only a wish to destroy current, long-term output of the EAF and people in its vanguard. The output of succeeding events on a high organizational and sports level. The output of the increasing popularity of Armwrestling.

I’m appealing to all the participants of the Congress, who will be detaining in Brazil in a minute and to all those participants of national Federations, who delegated their representatives to the Congress. Don’t let anyone to manipulate yourselves!

Let’s do all we can to stabilise functioning of our structures and not to demolish it!

PeSzy