The General Assembly is the highest authority of AER and convenes representatives of all its full members. The General Assembly charges the Executive Board to implement its decisions. All procedures on elections are overseen by the Election Committee.

At the AER General Assembly 2024 on 13 June in Batumi, the following positions are up for elections:

1 Vice President of the Executive Board

The Vice Presidents have a mandate of two years and may be re-elected three times.

3 members of the Monitoring and Evaluation Group

The positions in the Monitoring and Evaluation Group have a mandate of three years and may be re-elected twice.

Current members are Thomas Hartman (Västerbotten SE), Chair and Kenneth Backgård (Norrbotten, SE).

1-3 members of the AER Election Committee

The positions in the Election Committee have a two-year mandate and may be re-elected three times.

Current members are Thomas Hartman (Västerbotten SE) and Marina Medaric (Primorje-Gorski Kotar HR)

Deadline for nominations, 15 May 2024

Nominations for each position can be submitted by full members of the AER. The deadline for nominations is 15 May 2024. Nominations will be accepted by email to [email protected].

The nominees must hold a regional political mandate. They are also charged to appoint a Seconded Officer who will work towards all tasks linked to the delegate’s duties – speech writing, drafting answers to letters, drafting contributions to communications, preparing the logistics of trips, etc – in collaboration with the secretariat.

Thomas Hartman, Chair of the Election Committee