On Thursday, The Third Eye as a member organisation of Kunsill Nazzjonali Żgħażagħ (KNŻ) received an email from the board of control stating that the President (Liam Axisa), Vice-president (Celine Talbot), and Secretary-general (Kristina Filletti) of KNZ have all resigned. This caused the current executive committee to not meet the statutory requirement of having at least 7 members in the executive committee which lead to the dissolution of the current executive committee and triggering an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) that will be held on the 14th of July to elect a new Executive committee until the Annual General Meeting in 2023.
The sudden resignation of the three main heads of the council executive committee came as a shock especially when considering it has been less than two months since the KNŻ work plan for 2022/2023 has been approved.
The reason for the resignation is stated to be “They shall each be independently pursuing a career and academic opportunities abroad”. We want to point out that these are not the only resignations that the KNZ saw in this term as back in May the international officer resigned citing a change of plans and unforeseen circumstances in a post on Facebook. A replacement for that office was voted in and approved back in May.
We reached out to the outgoing KNŻ president Liam Axisa to further expand on the explanation we were given and he said
We were in direct contact with the Board of Control in order to interpret the KNŻ statute for the situation at hand given that each of myself, Celine (the Vice-President), and Kristina (the Secretary General) had been offered career or academic opportunities abroad, wherein I will be undertaking a Blue Book Traineeship with the European Commission, Celine will be placed on an assignment with the German Financial Services Regulator, and Kristina will be participating in the Erasmus programme. As all these paths would take us away from the country through 2022 and into 2023, it was decided that the best decision for the Executive Committee would be for us to resign and make way for new leadership, by means of an EGM to ensure full statutory compliance.
Liam Axisa, Outgoing president of KNŻ
The outgoing KNŻ president also noted that the Work plan presented on May 17th has already been approved by the member organisations so it is still eligible as a work plan for the future executive committee but it serves as a targeted plan rather than a set plan that limits them giving them the freedom to expand on it if they want.
Candidates can be nominated for the executive committee by any full member of the council which includes names such as KSU, Movement Graffitti, LGBTI+ Gozo, JEF Malta, ESN, ELSA, The Third Eye, and many more. With the nomination for executives committee closing on Wednesday 13th of July evening and election or confirmation to be held in the EGM on the 14th Thursday. The Announcement of the new executive committee will be announced later on after the EGM.
For the full list of the Full members of the counicl click here.
The Third Eye would like to thank all the members of the past executive committee for their work and effort within the council and wish them success in their future endeavors.
