As scheduled, the parliamentary elections took place electronically on December 1st. The first MPs to vote were the ones in Japan and China, and the last ones were the MPs from Hawaï and the West Coast of the USA. Being the members of the electoral commission*, we sat on December 2nd and counted all the votes. We can confirm that the process of elections was free, transparent and sincere. This is the result we can announce about the new elected leaders of the Parliament :
-Presidency of the Parliament : Nina Womack
-Vice Presidency for Africa : Josephat Moses Ochieng
-Vice Presidency for Asia and Pacific : Ajishola Ajiboye-Jacob
-Vice Presidency for South America : Ivan Poli
-Vice Presidency for Central America : Melvin Brown
-Vice Presidency for North America : Rodeney Joseph
-Vice Presidence for Europe : Gemma Vecchio
Presidents of National Delegations :
Africa
-Ivory Coast : Roland Olivier Dedi / Jonas Kouakou Bah
-Democratic Republic of Congo : Moses Bushiri
-Ghana : Akyeaw Owusu
Asia
-China : Felisters Mutsakani
-India : Sibiri Kassiama
Central America and Caribbean Islands
-Dominican Republic : Auclair Gourdet
-Haïti : Junior Moschino Remy
-Honduras : Daniel Martinez
-Panama : Gilma Camargo
Europe
-France : Romain da Costa
-Italy : Gaoussou Ouattara
-United Kingdom : Nnamdi Chukwu
North America
-Canada : Marie Mayard
-United States : Ozell Daniel,
South America
-Argentina : Emmanuel Ntaka
-Brazil : Joao Monteiro
As the members of the electoral commission, we want to congratulate the new elected leaders of the Parliament. We wish them the best for their action, in relation with the government and the citizens of the State of the African Diaspora.
* The members of the electoral commission included Edgar Ikombo, minister of Home Affairs, Jasmine Rowe, ambassador for the African Union and for Ethiopia, and Moïse Kerekou, roving ambassador of SOAD.
