UWW Congress Procedure Rules October 2024
Current edition; it made the presence of at least one woman in a three-member delegation mandatory, entrusted the vetting of candidates' eligibility to an independent commission, and set out the election procedure step by step in an appendix.
| Publication | United World Wrestling — October 2024 edition |
| Structure | 11 articles + Appendix 1 (model for conducting elections) |
| Status | Current edition — the governing Congress procedure |
What are the Congress Procedure Rules?
The United World Wrestling (UWW) Congress Procedure Rules govern how the Congress is held: who represents a national federation, how convocation and registration are carried out, what the condition for participation is, how the agenda is settled, by what procedure voting and elections are conducted, and when decisions are valid. This document supplements the Constitution: the Constitution determines the powers of the Congress, and this text the mechanism for exercising them.
About the October 2024 editionChanges from November 2019
Key changes from the previous edition
- Presence of women in the delegationIt was provided that whenever a national federation registers three delegates, at least one of them must be a woman.
- Commission for vetting candidates' eligibilityEstablishing candidates' eligibility under the Constitution was entrusted to a commission composed of members of the Legal Commission, whose members must hold a nationality different from that of the candidates.
- Appendix 1: step-by-step election procedureFor the first time an appendix was added setting out the conduct of elections in detail: distribution and checking of the voting devices before the election, and programming of the devices so as not to allow votes in excess of the number of seats.
- Two-round election mechanismSix seats with a full six-year term are renewed every two years, and each delegate may select up to six candidates. In the first round, election requires an absolute majority (half of the valid votes plus one), and if the seats are not filled, a relative majority applies in the second round.
- Rules on ties, nationality and the quota for womenIn the event of a tie between two incumbent members or two new candidates, the older is elected, and in a tie between an incumbent member and a new candidate, the incumbent member prevails. Only one candidate from each country may be elected, and at least five seats among the elected members are reserved for women.
- Condition for participation in the CongressA national federation must have discharged all its financial obligations towards United World Wrestling and be subject to no disciplinary suspension; the voting rights of Bureau members and of national federations are also not transferable.
Who this document matters to
For the Iranian wrestling federation this text determines who its delegates are to be, what formal conditions apply to the power of attorney, and in what circumstances the right to vote lapses — including financial debt or disciplinary suspension. For any national federation intending to put forward a candidate for the organs of United World Wrestling, the election procedure and the eligibility conditions are set out in this same document.