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How is it then that J* management negotiates with a body that doesn't exist? you ask
Quiet easily really. they negotiate with some carefuly selected (not all) individuals who make up the JPC which is not repeat NOT a legal body.
For the second part of my post - the bit you didnt answer - At the last vote they wanted SIX OR MORE members. When the results were known and the names they wanted were within the first six, they decided that six would be juuuussst right (no second prize for the candidates that came seventh or eighth).
If the right names were not in the first six then they would have needed seven -or eight or.......