protocol for past president

[Guest Lori Riley]

My organization has a situation where last year's President publicly challenges the current President's ideas/strategy/vision, etc.  Even though this is not done in a vindictive manner, it seems to be creating roadblocks to getting some things accomplished.  I thought that there was a time-honored tradition where past presidents did not openly challenge the current president for just this reason.  However, i cannot find any reference to this in Roberts Rules.  It does seem to me to cause problems for this to go on since the past President was popular with a faction of the group.  Is there anything in Roberts Rules (or any other documentation) that defines this protocol?  Note:  our group does not have the official position of Immediate Past President.  The Past President in question is now a regular member, but still has a certain following.

 

[Hieu H. Huynh]

RONR does not mention "past president".

[Weldon Merritt]

RONR has nothing to say about the past president. But so long as the past president remains a member, he has the same rights as any other member. To what extent those rights (for any member) include "publicly challeng[ing] the current President's ideas/strategy/vision, etc." depends upon how and in what context that is done.

[Edgar Guest]

I thought that there was a time-honored tradition where past presidents did not openly challenge the current president for just this reason.

 

You should see what past President Roosevelt (Teddy, not Franklin) had to say about (then) current President Taft.