{"id":307746,"date":"2021-01-31T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/great-expectation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:55","slug":"great-expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/great-expectation\/","title":{"rendered":"Great expectation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Assembly\u00a0 Diary 8 &#8211;\u00a0 January 31, 2021<\/strong>  <em>&#8220;Listen to the voice of the Lord today&#8221;! These words, taken from Psalm 94\/95,\u00a0 \u201cthe thought for the day&#8221;, also known also as \u201cPassaparola\u201d, which reaches\u00a0 Focolare members worldwide daily, could not have been\u00a0 more appropriate. In fact, the elections for the future President of the Focolare Movement started\u00a0 today, and the first priority for the voters is to listen well to the voice of God to identify the right person who would be the president for the next six years.<\/em>  <div id=\"attachment_239750\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239750\" class=\"wp-image-239750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/la-commissione-elettorale-604x340.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"244\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-239750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electoral commission<\/p><\/div>  As provided\u00a0 by the General Statutes, the following three steps are to be taken when\u00a0 electing\u00a0 the new President: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>she must be elected by at least two thirds of the eligible voters present. This fairly high proportion of voters expresses the wish of the founder, Chiara Lubich so that there would\u00a0 be the greatest possible consensus for this very important role. At the request of the participants, the election process can be interrupted\u00a0 to give space for communion in a plenary session and in small groups;<\/li>\n<li>having reached the necessary majority, the candidate must accept her election in front of the Assembly;<\/li>\n<li>then one has to wait patiently a bit more because\u00a0 there is the third step to be followed. Since the Movement is an association of pontifical right, the elected President &#8211; and later also the Co-President &#8211; must be confirmed by the Holy See, specifically by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life. It is only after this confirmation that the election is valid and can be communicated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> An electoral commission, presented to the Assembly and confirmed at its first plenary session on\u00a0 January 24,\u00a0 ensures that\u00a0 election rules are followed. The five members are all legal experts: Danilo Virdis, a married\u00a0 focolarino from Italy; Flavia Cerino, a focolarina from Italy, Laura Bozzi, a volunteer from Italy; Waldery Hilgeman, a\u00a0 volunteer from Holland \u00a0and Sr. Tiziana Merletti, an Italian Franciscan.  The election process will continue tomorrow, February 1. Once the President has been elected, the Co-President will be elected in the same way. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Communication Office of the Focolare Movement<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/General-Assembly-Diary-8-31-January-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text in PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Listen to the voice of the Lord today&#8221;! These words, taken from Psalm 94\/95,\u00a0 \u201cthe thought for the day&#8221;, also known also as \u201cPassaparola\u201d, which reaches\u00a0 Focolare members worldwide daily, could not have been\u00a0 more appropriate. In fact, the elections for the future President of the Focolare Movement started\u00a0 today, and the first priority for the voters is to listen well to the voice of God to identify the right person who would be the president for the next six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}