In LTOK elections, there are mysterious powers, sheriff’s visits, and unanswered questions.

Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, who is seeking re-election, and Emilis Vaitkaitis, current president of the Lithuanian Swimming Federation, will face the most important positions in the sport of the country.

67 LTOK members will have the right to vote in the elections, a third less than in 2012, when D. Gudzinevičiūtė defeated former discus thrower Virgilijus Aleknas after a persistent electoral struggle.

The LTOK bylaws, as amended in 2016, reduced the circle of members, so the value of each vote increased accordingly.

While opposing camps lined up in support of possible election scenarios, Delphi he looked at what would determine his results.

The coach of the national team will also vote

LTOK now has 40 Olympic sports federations and three other recognized non-Olympic sports federations: orienteering, chess and sports dance.

The General Assembly also includes 12 associations that promote Olympism, such as the Lithuanian Aero Club, the Sport for All Association, the Lithuanian Paralympic Committee and others.

Under the new LTOK statutes, legal entities are represented in the General Assembly by their presidents. However, the latter can also authorize lower-ranking individuals instead of themselves.

This practice is popular. For example, Mindaugas Špokas, general secretary of the Basketball Federation, Vaidas Budrauskas (Lietuva Hockey Association) and Justina Stalionė (Judo Federation), Dalia Kutkaitė, Vice President of the Gymnastics Federation, are candidates for the Executive Committee.

The wrestling federation has authorized Mindaugas Ežerskis, coach of the national team and member of the presidium, and Arūnas Pukelis, vice president of the Football Federation, who is more inclined before the elections, also has the authorization.

However, the most interesting thing here is the last name of Valentinas Paketūras. The current Secretary General of the LTOK is a candidate for the Executive Committee as an authorized member of the Kerling Association.

A club member just doesn’t know which one

The latter association has not had a president since mid-summer, when Vytautas Zimnickas, director of the National Coronavirus Research Laboratory, passed away.

The Curling Association inevitably had to authorize someone else to participate in the LTOK General Assembly, but the election of V. Paketūras leaves questions unanswered.

According to the Associations Law, a legal person can only be represented in the general meeting of partners by employees, participants or members of the management body of that legal person.

How is V. Paketūras related to the Kerling Association?

“Mr. Paketūras is a member of one of the clubs, and if the association has decided to delegate him as a representative in the General Assembly, I do not see anything illegal in that,” he said on Tuesday. Delphi Mr. Gudzinevičiūtė, who does not hide in case of victory in the elections, will offer V. Paketūras the position of Secretary General of the LTOK.

Same Delphi repeated by the chairman of the LTOK Electoral Commission, Česlav Okinčicas.

“The lawyers checked and found no violations. He is a member of the Kerling Association, he belongs to the club,” said the president of the Golf Federation.

But neither of them said which particular curling club V. Paketūras belongs to.

And not so many of them. The Curling Association has only six members. Go Delphi After verifying the data stored in the Registry Center for each of them, no traces of V. Paketūras could be found.

Vygantas Zalieckas, the Secretary General of the Curling Association, stated that V. Paketūras had long been the guardian of curling.

“We have worked with Valentine for a long time, from the beginning. From the sports community, he is the only person who supports curling, helped him nurture it. That should be enough. This is a person I can trust and I don’t see no other suitable candidacy, ”said V. Zalieckas.

But when asked several times if V. Paketūras is really a member of any curling club, V. Zalieckas only urged “not to marry”.

Delphi In the opinion of the consulting attorneys, if V. Paketūras is not legally related to the Kerling Association, the authority to represent it at the LTOK General Assembly may be in contravention of the Associations Law.

We were unable to contact V. Paketūras himself on Thursday.

The 60-year-old sports official, who has been the General Secretary of the LTOK since 2012 and is also a member of the LTOK Executive Committee and the Board of the Lithuanian Olympic Foundation, was previously one of the leaders of the Handball Federation and the Lithuanian Sports Federation.

Olympic Award Winners Cookie

In addition to legal persons, 12 natural persons are also members of the LTOK.

Among them are D. Gudzinevičiūtė, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Donatas Kazlauskas, Dainius Kepenis, Valdas Malinauskas, Vytautas Kukarskas, Irena Ramelytė, Gintautas Umaras, Vytautas Padlipskas and Arvydas Juozaitis, members of the 1988 reconstruction task force LTOK.

The remaining three are separately elected representatives of the Olympians.

Unlike in previous years, this time the Olympic delegate elections organized by LTOK were active.

In August, around a hundred current and former Lithuanian Olympians voted for them, and rowers Mindaugas Griškonis and Saulius Ritteris and walker Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė received the most support.

Of this trio, only the latter will attend the General Assembly session on Friday. M. Griškonis and S. Ritteris, who are rowing doubles together, have gone off to the European Championships, which will start in Poland on the same day.

Last month, some colleagues from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic vice-champions duo were upset by rumors that they had authorized second parties to attend the General Assembly.

After all, both M. Griškonis’s wife, Diana Lobačevskė, and S. Ritter’s friend, Milda Valčiukaitė, also participate in the Olympic Games.

But this week Delphi When he inquired about what was coming to the Litexpo Palace on Friday, the rumors did not materialize.

Delphi According to the information, M. Valčiukaitė underwent back surgery on Wednesday. Due to this injury, the shirt itself could not participate in the European Championship, nor will it appear in the General Assembly session.

However, Mr. Ritter did not disclose what authorized the vote. The rower only assured that he sees no reason for other athletes to resent the fact that the functions of his chosen delegate have been entrusted to anonymity without his knowledge.

“I am not giving up my right to vote, I am just forcing someone else to vote for me accordingly, as I will not be able to physically participate in the elections,” explained the 32-year-old athlete.

D. Lobachevsky also denied having chosen the LTOK president, but assured that he could not say who would vote for M. Griškonis. By the way, the latter himself is a candidate for the executive committee of LTOK.

The bailiffs will fix it

On the eve of the session of the General Assembly, the veils of secrecy were confirmed by the representatives of the Electoral Commission of the LTOK, who were unable to do so.

According to its president Č. Credentials do not need to be presented in advance to Okinawan MPs, LTOK, so they will be reviewed only after the physical arrival of the General Assembly on Election Day.

Although in line with the Government’s recommendations on handling the coronavirus, the LTOK requested pre-registration indicating the contacts and residence of all attendees and observers to the event, including journalists.

The course of the General Assembly session and its culmination, a secret ballot, will not only be followed by the media.

How Delphi informed Č. In Okinawa, the Karate Federation invited a lawyer and two bailiffs to observe the election as guests.

“Important elections await us, the participation of lawyers is very important so that later there are no involuntary disputes. The more people get legitimacy, the better. As far as I know, others will seize that opportunity, “said Romas Vitkauskas, president of the Karate Federation, who specified that he was inviting a bailiff.

By the way, he himself is also a candidate for the LTOK Executive Committee.

The LTOK president is elected for a four-year term. The LTOK Executive Committee consists of 13 members: the president, three vice presidents, the general secretary, the treasurer, and seven other members.

Together with V. Paketūras, D. Gudzinevičiūtė’s team includes Naglis Nasvytis, President of the Sailing Union, Lilija Vanagienė, President of the Skating Federation, and Saulius Galadauskas, Director of the Lithuanian Association of Masters of Sport Penki Žiedai .

In the event of victory, they would be offered to the positions of vice-presidents, and D. Gudzinevičiūtė has provided the position of treasurer to Darius Čerkas, president of the Volleyball Federation.

E. Vaitkaitis sees M. Špokas as the general secretary of the LTOK, R. Vitkauskas and the director of the Tennis Union Ramūnas Grušas as vice-presidents, and V. Kukarskas as treasurer.