The Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) has upheld Miguel Galán’s appeal against the electoral roll of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and agrees to retroactive the proceedings so that the Electoral Commission can issue a resolution in accordance with the law. The Federation, for its part, disagrees and gives another reading to the order: there is no need to repeat anything, the Electoral Commission should only resolve Galán’s appeal with another argument.
Galán, president of the National Coaches Committee (CENAFE), confirmed this Friday the resolution of the TAD, the court to which he appealed the decision of the RFEF Electoral Commission, adopted on April 9, to not admit the challenge to the census and the request for that the assembly members who had lost that status be discharged, according to their criteria about 40 of the 138.
The Electoral Commission alleged that there could be a defect in the way the appeal was proposed, as well as that the same issue had been the subject of another identical appeal by the same appellants before the TAD, the highest hierarchical body, which forced it to abstain. of its resolution and to proceed with the inadmissibility of the writing, arguments now rejected by the court.
The resolution of the TAD is final in administrative proceedings, and a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed against it before the Central Contentious-Administrative Court within a period of two months from its notification this Friday.
This is how the Sports Administrative Court resolves the conflict, which suggests that the electoral process must be restarted. That is, the collection of endorsements is of no use until the Electoral Commission decides on the composition of the assembly members that Galán describes as ‘expired’. And once this point is resolved, the electoral process must begin again. Giving a second chance to the rest of the candidates to stand up to Pedro Rocha.
This reopens a new period of uncertainty in the highest body of Spanish football. Pedro Rocha, the only candidate who obtained the necessary endorsements to be president of the Spanish Football Federation, who could not be proclaimed because the TAD opened a sanctioning file against him, issued a statement last Monday to attack the TAD and the CSD and defend his innocence. Rocha proclaimed himself president and announced that he is studying denouncing the TAD and the CSD for prevarication and said that “the TAD’s resolution is completely surprising and alien to all logic and legal sense.”
