Sioran Cycling Association - 1579 Election

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Vote for electing the Chairman of the Sioran Cycling Association, the head of the international cycling association is opened. You have one vote for one candidate. If the winning candidate fails to obtain 50% of the votes, there will be a second round voting. The vote will remain open for two weeks, but the election is supposedly happening on late Vintyr this year.

List of candidates (and their proposals) is included below:

Candidate Name: Georges Marquette
Candidate Nation: Valland
Candidate Age: 64
Candidate Info: Marquette comes from a family of cyclists. Both his father and uncle were professional riders, winning the later three Tour de Valland individual stages during the 1520s. He is also married with a Eskkyan retired professional cyclist and sport journalist. Marquette became professional cyclist in 1534 but retired in 1538. From 1541 to 1552, he was president of the Vallish Association of Professional Riders.

He was chairman of the Vallish Cycling Association from 1555 to 1566. He's often praised for modernizing the cycling federation, improving its finances, and introducing important administrative reforms. However, early 1560s were years of many doping scandals, some of them involving Vallish teams, specially during the 1561 and 1564 Tour de Valland. He was often criticized to not doing enough to fight doping during those years, and two Vallish Cycling Association officials had to resign for corruption and covering doped riders. But Vallish courts cleared Marquette of any wrongdoing.

He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Sioran Cycling Association in 1569, after Alstarian Christian Sondermüller was elected as Chairman, and he remained in the position until today. Despite the controversies which surrounded Marquette's years in the Vallish Association, Sondermüller was elected on a strict platform against doping in cycling, and Sondermüller and Marquette passed several reforms to improve the fight against doping and increase the budget for anti-doping testing. As his right-hand, Marquette is seen as a candidate which will continue Sondermüller's policies.
Candidate Program: Marquette has promised to continue the fight against doping, and to improve SCA finances.
Anti-doping stance: Moderate

Candidate Name: Stanislav Srebotnjek
Candidate Nation: Mordvania
Candidate Age: 46
Candidate Info: A retired professional road race cyclist, he rode most of his career in Biyran and Ceribian teams, with very modest achievements. In 1568, he was hired by the Mordvanian Cycling Federation to manage the Mordvanian Youth cycling team. He was elected chairman of the Mordvanian Cycling Federation in 1574.
Candidate Program: Srebotnjek has promise a zero-tolerance policy to fight doping and corruption in the SCA. His main proposal is to introduce a life-ban for those cyclists who test positive after returning from a sanction for doping. Another of his controversial proposals is that Global Tour cycling races are not forced to invite a top SCA Ranking teams if they had at least three riders tested for positive for doping in the previous two seasons, even if the teams are cleared of any direct wrongdoing.

Srebotnjek has also proposed creating a fund for promoting cycling between youth, and to study the creation of continental championships for national teams.
Anti-doping stance: Zero-tolerance

Candidate Name: Yukimura Matsuko
Candidate Nation: Sainam
Candidate Age: 57
Candidate Info: Yukimura Matsuko is former top female Sainamese cyclist and politician. As a cyclist, Yukimura won three Olympic medals, including the women's time trails at the 1546 and 1550 games, along with a few other achievements that were available for female cyclists in the Ostaran and world stage.

Following Yukimura's retirement from cycling, she was a member of the Sainamese National Assembly for the Social Democratic Party from 1564 to 1570. In 1570, she was elected a vice-president of the Sainamese Cycling Union (SCU), and re-elected for another five-year term in 1575.
Candidate Program: Along with plans to further support the development of the sport from the youth level, Yukimura also wants to put in place tougher punishments for cyclists caught caught doping, such as lengthening the years of banning a cyclists faces after being caught, or perhaps even placing a life ban upon them. An increase in testing for dopers is also being proposed.

She also proposes expulsion and permanent banning of any federation caught aiding cyclists or teams to dope in any cycling event. Corruption is also an issue to be taken up by Yukimura, with plans to adopt a Oversight Committee modeled after the one created by SIFA President Vilmar Knutsen.
Anti-doping stance: Zero-tolerance