Víctor Francos (44) announced this Thursday that he is resigning from the position of president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), a position he held since June of this year, replacing José Manuel Franco, in “a thoughtful decision that takes into account reasons professionals”.
“We are at the beginning of the XV Legislature and, with it, the formation of a new Government, which opens a period of stability in Spanish sport. Due to my willingness, already expressed to Minister Pilar Alegría, to undertake new challenges professionals, it is time for the CSD to have a person at the helm who will take on the new challenges of this institution over the next four years,” he adds in a press release from the Council.
Francos has declared that “personally”, he closes “an exciting stage in national politics that began with the hand of Minister Salvador Illa, in March 2020 in the Ministry of Health, facing the pandemic, from which we all suffer, in the greatest challenge that a public servant could afford.
“Later, with Minister Miquel Iceta, first in Territorial Policy and Public Function and then in the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and ending this stage as president of the Higher Sports Council in which I have tried to contribute to the development of public policies sports of this Government, the most ambitious in the history of Spanish sports,” he indicates in the note.
Iceta had been the one who had appointed him to the position, a mandate that had been put in place on June 13.
Among his main contributions was his activity in the Oliva Pact, signed after the conflict that had confronted the players of the Spanish soccer team and the federative organizations, and which had led to the dismissal of Luis Rubiales, author of the kiss. spoiled Jennifer Hermoso.
Víctor Francos ends by thanking the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for “his repeated displays of trust in this phase” of his “institutional life.”
“Also to the ministers with whom I have worked for giving me the opportunity to develop my vocation as a public servant in a progressive and transformative project for Spain,” he concludes.
