The Federation (RFEF) says that it has no “official communication or notice” of the challenge and suspension of the presidential elections by the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) and charges severely against the legal body, which it suspects might have been committed a crime of prevarication and that threatens a complaint.
“We are convinced that the assignment of the paper for the review and resolution proposal of the appeals presented will have been done in the corresponding correlative order, as it could not be otherwise. It would be an unprecedented scandal that the President of the Court would have assigned the presentation to a specific member of the Tribunal without following the established order and what would be an immediate complaint would be that he had precisely assigned it to one of the members who has already acted as speaker in the other electoral files of the Federation that were the subject of a previous complaint on the part of members of this Federation, that said member had not abstained and it would only be necessary for him to be the same as the rapporteur for the reports of the native members and the electoral progress. We are convinced that the TAD and its president did not they will have made a mistake and awkwardness of such magnitude“it says in a statement.
In any case, if the TAD challenge is successful and the Federation does not present an appeal to the courts, as seems evident, the most probable thing is that the electoral deadlines are paralyzed and the elections cannot be held on August 17, as planned, although the defect in the form argued by the TAD has an easy remedy, since what they demand from the RFEF is that the electoral call has been requested by its Board of Directors and not by its President, as is mandatory.
The harsh statement that the RFEF will make public shortly reads as follows:
1- As it has been a deplorable habitual tonic for a democratic society where the rights of citizens are respected, we have been learning about certain administrative information that affects us directly through the media rather than through the legally established channels.
2- We are not aware of any resolution of the TAD in relation to the challenges that were presented and that were duly informed by this Federation.
3- In response to the information from the aforementioned media, it should be said that, contrary to what was published, the RFEF has acted in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations duly approved by the CSD, exactly as it has been done in all processes elections called with the same Electoral Regulations, without any difference or modification.
4- The RFEF electoral regulations were approved by the CSD Board of Directors, with the favorable Report of the Administrative Court of Sport and the CSD Deputy Director of the Legal Regime of Sport.
5- In the last months, resolutions of the Administrative Court of Sport in relation to the RFEF (ex officio members, electoral advance, statutory modifications, etc.) are verified with completely different criteria from those that had been applied and continue to be applied for the rest of the sports federations Spanish as we will prove, in due course, before the competent judicial bodies. Criteria that apply only and exclusively when it comes to resolutions that affect the RFEF and that are contrary to the criteria that the same TAD or the Board of Electoral Guarantees had used for other cases of the same nature and content.
6- The calling of the elections to the RFEF corresponds, in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Regulations approved by the CSD, to the Board of Directors, any decision of an administrative body that could be contrary to the provisions of current regulations not only It could imply a prevarication on the part of those who had adopted a decision contrary to current legislation, but would represent a clear and manifest interference in the powers of sports federations, violating the most elementary principles of autonomy of sports institutions, this criterion is fully supported by UEFA, FIFA and IOC.
7- We are convinced that the assignment of the paper for the review and resolution proposal of the resources presented will have been done in the corresponding correlative order, as it cannot be otherwise. It would be an unprecedented scandal if the President of the Tribunal had assigned the presentation to a specific member of the Tribunal without following the established order and what would be an immediate complaint would be that he had precisely assigned it to one of the members who had already acted as rapporteur in the other electoral files of the Federation that were the cause of a previous complaint by members of this Federation, that said member had not abstained and it would only be missing if he were the same as the rapporteur of the reports of the born members and of the electoral advance. We are convinced that the TAD and its president will not have made a mistake and blunder of such magnitude.