The voting for the ACCA 2000 Council elections closed yesterday. However, its outcome has already been decided by the elites ruling the ACCA.

As all members know, ACCA does not have elections. Its council is "appointed" by the leadership which will cast some 20-25% of all the votes. As only between 5%-10% of the membership votes, the leadership's "block vote" becomes even more significant.

To collect this vote, the leadership uses ACCA's resources and  sends envoys to countries like Malaysia and Hong Kong. Members are offered free lunches and buffets in return for incomplete voting papers. In the UK, the magazine does not allow any debate.

The outcome of the Council elections will be announced at the AGM on 4th May. But AABA can predict the following
 

• No reformer will be allowed to be elected. The leadership does not want anyone who will ask uncomfortable questions.

• No non-white person will be elected. Throughout the history of the ACCA, its officeholders have always been white and from the UK. They will only support people like themselves.

• No person from outside the UK will be elected to the council. The leadership claims that ACCA is 'global'. But the reality is different. It is small-minded. It will not give proxy votes to any non-UK member  unless it thinks that the members are going to be their poodles. This year there are a couple of candidates who helped the leadership defeat the EGM. They are expecting a pay-off by being hoisted to the council. But none of these individuals are big names in their own countries. So the leadership does not really need them and it won't give them the full support. So no one from outside the Uk will be "appointed/elected" to the Council.

• All senior figures (Auger, Bishop, Brockwell) will get re-elected. Such is the power of the 20-25% proxy votes. Valerie Cully, a friend of Peter Langard will also get elected.