Global Young Greens: Motions

A8: Restructuring the Steering Committee

GYG Steering Committee (decided on: 05/23/2023) — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:40:37 +0200

Motion text

Lines 130-139: SC consist of minimum 2 persons, maximum 4 persons from each region (at least 2 from each
region needs to identify themselves as women, inter, or trans)

Positions in SC are agreed on within the SC after elections and are the
following:

2 Co-Spokesperson

1 Secretary General

1 Treasurer

2 Activities Co-coordinators

2 Communication Co-coordinators

2 regional coordinators from each region

Reason

We have faced quite some capacity issues in the past SCs and hope that this can improve our work.

A4: Flat Hiearchies

GYG Steering Committee (decided on: 05/19/2023) — Tue, 23 May 2023 21:31:06 +0200

Motion text

Lines 141-143: main and deputy SC member from each region

Delete: main and deputy

Remaining Text in Lines 141-143: SC member from each region:

Reason

This is adapting the OPs to the lived practice inside of the GYG SC.

A1: A GYG Secretariat

GYG Steering Committee (decided on: 05/19/2023) — Tue, 23 May 2023 21:29:14 +0200

Motion text

Add after lines 130-139:

GYG SC to work on setting up a secretariat as follows:

Executive secretary

Volunteer manager

Reason

This is supposed to support the colunteer work of the SC.

A2: A Political Platform for GYG

GYG Steering Committee (decided on: 05/19/2023) — Tue, 23 May 2023 21:24:00 +0200

Motion text

Add in line 34: “- a political platform”
Add in line 42: “The third pillar consists of the political platform which resembles the fundamental political consensus of GYG. It can be updated in Congress through amendments. A complete content review requires a process led by the SC. If at least two regional federations ask for a content review, the SC will propose it to the Congress. The SC can also initiate this process itself.”

Reason

This was already planned to be proposed in the online congress in 2022 but in the end not discussed. It would create a place for the content work the working groups have already been doing and open policy oriented discussions inside of GYG.

A3: Autonomy of GYG regarding the candidacies of OC members

Taiwan Young Greens (decided on: 05/23/2023) — Tue, 23 May 2023 21:06:31 +0200

Motion text

Change line 203 “All oversight committee members must be members of Global Greens member organization…” to “All oversight committee members must be members of Global Young Greens member organizations”

Reason

Global Young Greens should be independent from the Global Greens in terms of its decision-making. There is no benefit for GYG to limit our pool of candidates for SC and it allows GG to structurally influence our decision-making process, in the sense that we could only elect people who they approve. GYG and GG have separate memberships. This principle is against our belief in youth’s autonomy and GYG’s. It also significantly limits member organizations’ involvement in GYG in case they have seperated membership lists from their mother parties, which are not uncommon especially for Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

This restriction might also prevent active and engaged young Greens across all regions from standing in elections, which can worsen the lack of participation from MOs in the GYG network. In other words, we need all the talented and engaged people we could get in this network.

In addition, this principle also fails to consider the financial restraints many young Greens are facing, as a party membership fee could be too high for some to afford.

A5: Improving the GYG autonomy regarding the candidacies of SC members (Line 131-133)

Taiwan Young Greens (decided on: 05/23/2023) — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:46:27 +0200

Motion text

Change line 131-132 “All steering committee members must be members of Global Greens member organization…” to “All steering committee members must be members of Global Young Greens member organizations…”

Reason

In addition, this principle also fails to consider the financial restraints many young Greens are facing, as a party membership fee could be too high for some to afford.

A7: Removal of 5th Oversight Committee member to ensure regional balance on the Oversight Committee

GYG Oversight Committee (decided on: 05/02/2023) — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:17:29 +0200

Motion text

delete line 207 -"one Chairperson" & partially delete line 282 - "All delegates will vote for the OC Chair."

Reason

Removal of the OC Chairperson will ensure regional balance on the GYG Oversight Committee.

Regarding the role of the OC Chair, OC members can decide amongst themselves who Chairs the Committee (this is already the case for the GYG Steering Committee).