Last night, 7News told you about the trump card that current President of Belize Cycling Association Emil Moreno pulled in his effort to resist that vote of no-confidence being put together by Deputy Mayor Dion Leslie, who wants to be the next president.
He presented a letter written by the President of the Pan-American Cycling Federation, Jose Manuel Palaez Rodriguez, who stated explicitly that his organization and the International Cycling Union currently only recognize Moreno's executive as the ruling body over the BCA.
Well, the Minister of State with responsibility for Sports, Herman Longsworth, has responded to Rodriguez's letter.
He explains that the Sports Council is the only governing body in Belize which has the authority to recognize the executives of any sport - or to rescind that recognition.
According to Longsworth, the current BCA constitution that the Sports Council has on file is the only one being recognized - and we must note that is not the one on record with the Pan-American Cycling Federation.
Longsworth added that here is another general meeting scheduled for tomorrow where the membership will decide on which constitution they will run the BCA elections by.
He adds though that the Ministry of Sports would consider the request to postpone the elections until January if the Cycling Association appoint an interim executive comprising 2 members from each slate and chaired by the Sports Council. It would only preside over races until the new elections are held.
The next request is that governing bodies oversee free and fair elections of the next executive.
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