MADRID, 18 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Extremadura Football Federation and head of the Management Commission that currently directs the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Pedro Rocha, announced this Monday his resignation as leader of the Extremaduran organization, disassociating himself “completely” from the institution. and the Management Board that will govern the entity during the electoral process.
“Pedro Rocha announces that he will not run for re-election in the electoral process that the General Assembly of the Extremadura Football Federation begins for the period 2024/2028,” said the territorial body in its official ‘X’ account, where he gave the ” thanks” to the president.
The Extremadura Federation pointed out that its current head had communicated “his resignation as president to the members of the General Assembly, completely disassociating himself from the institution and the Management Board that will govern the entity during the electoral process.”
Thus, Rocha will not continue to lead the Extremadura Federation, an entity that he has presided over since 2013, by not presenting himself as a candidate for re-election for the period 2024-2028. This would be the first step for the now president of the RFEF Management Commission to have the possibility of presenting himself as a candidate for the presidency of the federative entity.
The leader has been in charge of this Management Commission since September of last year, after the ‘earthquake’ caused by Luis Rubiales’ kiss to Jenni Hermoso after the women’s team became world champion. Since then, the discussion began to establish when and how the elections would be held, and it was on February 5 when the RFEF sent to the different groups that make up its General Assembly the draft Electoral Regulations by virtue of the new Ministerial Order launched by the Government a month before.
The idea of the organization is to elect its new president before the start of the European Championship in Germany on June 14 to have the necessary stability and in its electoral calendar proposal it had established last June 15 as the start date of the process. March, while on April 26 there would be the election of the members of the Assembly and on May 24 the elections.
However, everything is going somewhat late and there is no official call for elections after the Sports Administrative Court (TAD) issued a report in which it pointed out that the RFEF Management Commission cannot renew the Assembly, the presidency and the Delegate Commission, and can only undertake a process to change the president until the end of the mandate that corresponded to Luis Rubiales.
The Government resolved on March 15 that the RFEF hold its elections with the new electoral regulations that it sent it in February, also taking into account the ministerial order on electoral processes that the CSD itself prepared due to the situation generated by the suspension of Luis Rubiales.