AMMAN — The Cabinet on Sunday endorsed the 2021 sports
federation bylaw, in a bid to tackle some of the pressing issues that have
hindered these federations’ progress for years.
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The new bylaw will allow the Jordan Olympic Committee (
JOC)
to assume an oversight role over sports federations, granting it the power to
evaluate, suspend or resume federation activities.
Under the new regulations, the JOC will also have the ability to approve the
establishment or dissolution of sports federations and to resolve conflicts
between a federation’s board, and its members.
JOC Vice President Sari Hamdan believes will bring about
“radical solutions” to the various problems that have plagued the Kingdom’s
sports federations over the past four years, noting that some 11 such
federations are governed by temporary committees at the moment.
“Several federations are struggling with internal problems,
which they could no longer address after losing quorum. The new bylaw will
attempt to solve these issues by balancing between the number of elected sports
federation officials and their counterparts who are selected on the basis of
expertise,” Hamdan told
Jordan News in
an interview.
He added: The new regulations permit each sports federation
to draft their own, modern bylaw, which is on par with those of continental
federations to seek accountability for any form of negligence.”
President of the Jordan Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation
Mamoun Kalimat said welcomed the new legislation, saying: “We support the JOC’s
supervisory roles, especially since our cards on the table.”
Kalimat declined, however, to comment on any of the new
bylaw’s specific provisions.
For his part, head of the Jordan Volleyball Federation
Tayseer Al-Mansi said that like any bylaw, the one at hand will have its own
advantages and disadvantages and cannot appease all parties.
Speaking to
Jordan News, Masni said: “We can only
hope that , especially since it is meant to remedy certain regulatory,
administrative and legislative gaps that have appeared in the past,” adding
that the JOC’s role as a supervisor of sports federations is “nothing new”.
The bylaw will apply to the sports federation elections,
which are set to take place after the end of the Olympics in August.
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