After Mindaugas Balčiūnas, who resigned on Monday, temporarily handed over the leadership duties, ALK Secretary General Dominykas Domarkas announced that the early election conference will take place on October 14 at 11 a.m. at the “Basketball House”.
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Candidacies can be submitted until September 25 at 4 p.m. Any association member can nominate a candidate.
“We will collect all candidacies, and on Monday, September 28 at 11 a.m., the Executive Committee will meet to approve the candidates and send the agenda and candidates to the members. Then there will be a 15-day period until October 14 at 11 a.m., when the new president will be elected,” said D. Domarkas.
We remind that in 2024, after defeating Robertas Javtokas in the elections, M. Balčiūnas announced his resignation last Friday and officially left his position on Monday.
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The official, who had been working in the association since 2021, faced much criticism due to the poor results of the Lithuanian men’s basketball team and coaches and players refusing to coach and play in the national team, and even darker clouds gathered over him after FIBA announced a very strict punishment for the former women’s national team coach Rimantas Grigas, who had previously been practically acquitted by the association and only given a warning.
It is practically certain that the main candidate to win the early elections will be the president of the Lithuanian Basketball League, Remigijus Milašius. No other candidates for the ALK president post have appeared so far, although earlier the possibility was hinted at by the former basketball player and now Panevėžys “Lietkabelis” director Jonas Mačiulis.
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