Paris (AFP)
Elected president of the National Rugby League (LNR) in 2012, Paul Goze will no longer be "president in a year", he explained Wednesday in an interview with AFP, where he rules out any temptation of a third mandate.
"I am finishing my second and last term at the end of the year. It has been eight years. I was elected in November 2012, so I am ending my term at the end of 2020. I will no longer be president in one year, "said the one who was re-elected in 2016.
A third term, like a time mentioned by certain media? "I cannot. The statutes do not allow more than two terms," he recalled.
According to the statutes and general regulations of the LNR, section 3, article 29, "the President is eligible for re-election, within the limit of two successive terms", which therefore excludes the 68-year-old Perpignan.
A third term of Goze would have required a modification of the statutes of the League as well as validation by the general assembly of the Federation.
The elections will take place at "end of year 2020 or beginning of year 2021".
"I would like to solve the problems of the fall and then to have advanced in the problem of the international calendar for the coming season before going to the election. No date is fixed today", he also precise.
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