ABFA presidency hopeful welcomes FIFA’s reminder of secret ballot elections
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Antigua and Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) presidency hopeful,
Barbara Coates, has welcomed a communique from the sport’s world governing body FIFA, reminding that the local elections must be held via secret ballot as stipulated by the constitution.
Speaking with Observer media on Wednesday, Coates said that her team, which also comprises former national players and coaches
Derrick Edwards and
Ivor Luke, will continue to lobby support from clubs until the proper authorities grant permission for the electoral congress to be held.
“The elections have to be held face to face via secret ballot and it also states that as soon as it is possible that the elections ought to be held, so if by the time May 22 comes around and the Ministry of Health approves it and the COVID protocols are in place that we are allowed to meet, then we will have our elections that time,” she said.
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