The General Chapter concludes in just a couple hours.
Likely as not, they will release a General Chapter Declaration.
I say "likely," not "certainly," because this 2018 GC has already shown a willingness to depart from precedent.
Aside from creating two new Counselor positions (not foreseen in the current Statutes) for +BF and Fr. Schmidberger, there was the matter of announcing election results for the new SG, 1Asst, and 2Asst on the very first day of the Chapter (which suggests this was all decided upon beforehand).
The explanation given for the rapid results (so rapid in fact, that while the SSPX was announcing the elections of the 1st and 2nd Asst. would take place on the 12th, the whole world was already reading about the results on the 11th), which seemed too hasty for SSPX media to keep up with (i.e., the GC had departed from pre-announced script?), was that this was simply the way GC's were conducted, to give the new administration ample time to deal with all the rest of the GC business..
However, for comparison purposes, the last elective GC was held in 2006, from July 3 - July 15.
http://archives.sspx.org/superior_generals_news/2006_general_chapter/declaration_of_2006_general_chapter.htmAnd at that General Chapter, the Superior General was not elected until July 11 (i.e., the 9th day of the 2006 General Chapter).
http://archives.sspx.org/superior_generals_news/2006_general_chapter/elections.htm Apparently, there is much more urgent business to deal with in 2018 than there was in 2006?
Fr. Girouard's letter may provide some insights into the content of that business.