Rubiales candidate in Castilla-La Mancha retires

The presidential elections to the Royal Spanish Football Federation will be next June, once Luis Rubiales will resign at the end of March so that I begin the electoral process in which He will face Iker Casillas. The vote, if no one withdraws, will be on June 8 or 17 depending on whether there are resources or not. However, before all this, many events have to take place in the Territorial Federations, where elections have to be held in all levels and in the presidencies to confirm the 140-member General Assembly that will finally elect the boss in Spanish football. As well, while last week José Ángel Peláez was re-elected president of the Cantabrian, to the applause of Rubiales, unanimously (he had no rival), the next president to take office will be Castilla-La Mancha. There is already a winner.

This morning José Fernando Hidalgo, Rubiales candidate in this region, has announced that he withdraws his candidacy by denouncing various irregularities in the electoral process that he brought to the attention of the Sports Justice Committee of the Community Board. In this way, Pablo Burillo will be appointed president at the end of March and he will succeed Antonio Escribano in the presidency after almost twenty years in office. Your opponent's resources have not prospered.

Burillo was secretary general of Escribano and now, when he takes office, he wants to completely renew a peculiar Federation, since on several occasions he has supported the losing candidate in the RFEF elections. Escribano once supported Gerardo González against Villar and then Larrea against Rubiales. Burillo wants to distance himself from those who place him next to the candidacy of Iker Casillas (“I am neutral”), although the exguardameta says the opposite in the meetings he is holding to gain supporters and show muscle: he assures that Castilla-La Mancha is one of the four Territorials that are on his side. In all of them, sooner or later, there will have to be primaries as it is the Olympic year and both Rubiales and Casillas are trying hard to place their trusted people in them.

This is the statement José Fernando Hidalgo has shared on Twitter:

“I want to announce that I will not present my candidacy for the presidential elections of the Castilla La Mancha Football Federation for whatever reasons we have exposed to the Sports Justice Committee of the Community Board, in order to annul the procedure and compel its repetition in conditions of equity. There are many people involved in Castilian-La Mancha football who share my vision that this Federation needs the regeneration of its estates and the replacement of the people who have run it for almost thirty years.

During these dates of intense work, I have been able to perceive that this process of change that has begun is unstoppable, which encourages me to think that we have done a great job. I thank those wonderful people, men and women, who are the true livelihood of amateur and in-formation football within our territorial federation, and who I am sure will not allow the prevailing lack of transparency to prevail during these long years.

To all of them, my consideration, support and affection. “