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Antonius Melisse and Natalia Gruber have stepped down from the OTW Board of Directors. Antonius's term was ending this year, so this has only opened one slot for the election, not two. However, as there are five open seats, and five candidates, the election is currently uncontested.

The official OTW channels have not made an announcement. This information comes from fail_fandomanon.

Elaboration (link):

To elaborate: they are the two Board members who had been on hiatus, which meant, among other things, that the Board wouldn't be able to hold a vote to kick Alex out, since you need a 2/3 majority.

This now means that Kari and Michelle could vote on their own to kick Alex out, if Alex doesn't resign on their own (though it would take at least two weeks, per the bylaws).

It does also mean that the election is uncontested - there are five open slots for the next term, and five remaining candidates. Some of those slots are partial slots, so the election will still be held, and the order of the winning candidates used to determine who gets a partial term and who gets a full term.

To clarify: they resigned from the Board, not from the OTW as an org. Both resignations were prompted by them being unable to dedicate the time needed to fulfill their responsibilities due to RL stuff.

A number of volunteers were telling them to get off hiatus to vote Alex out, or resign.

They resigned.

ETA: The announcement has been made official on the OTW site and on the AO3 site. (Twitter)

ETA 2: Per a comment on FFA:

Natalia and Antonius had both been on hiatus for over a month due to both being overwhelmed with RL issues. Per Michelle, they had both already begun the process of resigning prior to the incident with Alex yesterday (but hadn't made an official announcement because they were still getting all their ducks in a row).

Then the stuff with Alex happened, and as the nonny above me said, volunteers were telling them to either come off hiatus and begin the process of expelling Alex from the Board, or, if they were unable to fulfill their duties, resign. They both decided to make their resignations official at that point - which apparently was after Alex had also already decided to resign, but it's not clear if either of them knew that.

(Natalia did condemn Alex's behavior in Kutti's post and in the internal OTW chat, but given her previous inaction in other circumstances when Alex was being racist and/or an asshole, I wouldn't give her too much credit.)