Elections for the presidency of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) are in the hands of the State Prosecutor’s Office. The government is waiting for a report from this organization to start this operation. Ministry order This should regulate the Federation’s method of appointing a replacement for Luis Rubiales, who resigned as president of the organization on September 10 and was cornered by his non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso.
Sources Supreme Sports Council (CSD) explained that this was the last remaining procedure to be able to activate the selection mechanism and that this would also affect other national Olympic sports federations, but everyone except football would in principle make their selections when appropriate by default. In the second semester of this year, after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are held.
State Prosecutor The CSD is required to publish a report on its draft. Once the government receives it, the general technical secretariat of the governing body of Spanish sport will review the text to prepare it, which will become final once it is published in the Official State Gazette.
A protracted process
The final publication of this Ministerial Decree is taking much longer than the CSD anticipated. Even Víctor Francos as president On behalf of the organisation, the Government published the draft of the text on 11 October for public information so that all interested parties could send their contributions to the text.
Francos was then confident that he could complete all bureaucratic procedures. late November or early December. However, as CSD explains, the volume of contributions received More than 1,400 pages slowed down the process.
“Both those accepted and those rejected need to be justified and included in a report. This explains the analysis time needed due to the large volume of contributions,” the government said in those weeks. said.
After this process is completed, CSD, Sports Administrative Court (which is the body responsible for election issues) has tasked this text with the preparation of a mandatory report on the subject, in accordance with the procedures established by the legislation in force. This report is currently in the possession of the Government and is currently awaiting publication by the Attorney General’s Office.
Power change in CSD
CSD refuses to set deadlines, but all these procedures are expected to be completed shortly. We will then need to see how many variations occur based on the original text. It is worth remembering that the minister (deputy) is at the beginning of the process. Michael Iceta and president of CSD Victor Francosnow they Pilar Alegría and According to José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, there may also be changes of a political nature, as those responsible for Sport in the Government change.
Once the Ministerial Decree has been finalized, the RFEF needs to be prepared. self-selection regulations Complies with the requirements of the government text. At the time, CSD’s prediction was that a new president of the Federation could be elected around April, but this delay will also affect these deadlines. Actually, The possibility that the elections will not be held after the Olympic Games is not excluded in any way. and so Rocha temporarily accelerates Rubiales’ tenure.
And all this is happening while we wait for the future decision of the TAB. RFEF executive committee chairman Pedro Rocha’s decision not to call elections Immediately following Rubiales’ resignation. This Wednesday, CSD filed a complaint with the TAD regarding Miguel Ángel Galán. A procedure adopted by the Government that “responds to the correction requested by the TAD and continues the process initiated several months ago”, given that Francos had already lodged a complaint.