Arrobas Serves Up Grilled Sardinha On A Silva Platter To Win Portugal's Swim Presidency
Legal obligation awaits new leadership: António Silva must be dismissed, by law, after an integrity inquiry found against then FPN president, head of European Aquatics & vice-president of World Aquatics. How now for their reform agendas?
Miguel Arrobas, a former Olympian and the integrity/ reform candidate in Portugal's swim presidency elections, grilled Rui Sardinha, the continuity opponent, to take the throne at the national regulator in Lisbon this afternoon.
The result confirmed that Arrobas crushed Sardinha in all five electoral chapters of the Portuguese Swimming Federation (FPN) - even without the number of vote he would almost have certainly received from Lisbon delegates who were barred from voting (see protest below):
- General Assembly: 21-16
- Fiscal Council: 22-15
- Disciplinary Council: 22-15
- Legal Council: 23-14
- National Referees Council: 22-15
Defeat for Sardinha was served up on a Silva platter: he has been the right-hand man of now former president António Silva for the past 12 years but the majority of delegates opted for a change of administration and direction that places the international governance roles of the shamed Silva in jeopardy.
Included in the rest of this article:
- what Arrobas had to say
- why Silva's international positions are on the line
- the details and documents of a pre-vote protest over barred votes likely to have made Arrobas' victory margin even bigger
- how the news of the elections today was somewhat buried on the FPN news list
