I believe by law there has to be a motion on the agenda for the Annual General Meeting, first about the number of people on the EC, at least that’s so in NSW. Then there is the call for nominations and then the vote. I think you said you had a Strata Manager in another post. Surely they know the score, ask them.
There’s work to be done, MrPinkCarpet. You will have to a lot of quiet lobbying ahead of time, behind the scenes, so that by meeting time you have a whole lot of attendees there at the meeting who will nominate you, themselves, or other like minded people so this bloke and his rusted-on proxies have no chance of a look in. You may get some of your own proxies too (until it’s made illegal to have too many next year) but it is much better having people at the meeting personally voting.
MrPinkCarpet, you may have to be a bit pragmatic about this and point out how bad the ongoing situation you describe has been for your strata. You may win friends and lose some but hey…