The new ‘presi’ of Athletic does not need endorsement

the elections to the Athletic presidency and the forced transformation of Amorebieta into a sports limited company are two issues that could take a new turn between now and the end of the year. Everything depends on the success of the two partial amendments presented by the PNV to the General State Budgets. “The idea consists of advancing these two issues that are already contemplated in the Draft of the new Sports Law so as not to generate an absurd situation within a few months,” they summarize to MD from the Basque Nationalist Party.

The future Sports Law lives today in limbo, in a drawer of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. A process that still requires time to be submitted for approval. In this law, of course, two aspects are considered that affect both the statutes of sports clubs (so that they can freely establish the requirements to be a member of their boards of directors, such as seniority and endorsements, among others) and the legal form that each entity considers appropriate (either a Sports Limited Company, or a sports club). The two amendments presented by the PNV are aimed at accelerating this process in a faster and more effective way.

“The average journey for the approval of a law once it enters Congress is 6-8 months, but it has not even entered Congress. There was a risk that in the case of Athletic, for example, the presidential elections would be held in June-July with the obligation that the current directive present a guarantee of 15% of the budget and that only weeks or months later it would come into force a new law and that requirement is not mandatory. A nonsense ”, they indicate from the PNV.

Athletic, if this amendment succeeds as it seems, what it will have to do from now on is to determine in its statutes whether or not the directors have to endorse a percentage of the club’s annual budget and, if they have to do it, in how much. This measure, which can also be extrapolated to Barça, Real Madrid and Osasuna, the other sports clubs in the League, apparently contemplated, in principle, a range of between 2 and 15%; but everything now points to each club setting the percentage to be endorsed, if it considers it necessary to endorse.

The board chaired by Aitor Elizegi, who has already publicly stated that he does not intend to run for re-election, hopes to be able to hold an extraordinary assembly early in 2022 to submit the new statutes being drafted by the commission to the consideration of the rojiblancos compromisers. formed for this purpose.