The Government buys time to find the best way to resolve the RFEF crisis

Faced with the frenzy of judicial investigations, administrative files, official statements, cross-statements and compromising information in recent days, the Government has decided to press the ‘pause’ in the management of the RFEF crisis. The CSD, although it could do so since Monday, has not yet convened the board of directors that must decide on the suspension of Pedro Rocha and the members of the federative manager. A decision that is buying time to find the best and neatest solution to the gigantic institutional and reputational crisis that Spanish football is suffering from.

The current diabolical scenario in the RFEF is the following. The Federation is currently governed by a management commission whose mandate will expire as soon as a new president is proclaimed. Pedro Rochathe only candidate who gathered the endorsements to aspire to said position, cannot be so yet because his proclamation is contested by Miguel Galan. The day set for its proclamation was this past Monday, but the bureaucracy has delayed it until the 26th, provided that the challenge is rejected by the TAD, which remains to be seen.

That same TAD has opened a file for very serious misconduct, for exceeding its functions, both against Rocha and all the members of the managing committee that the Extremaduran presided until his technical resignation to be able to stand in the elections. The opening of said procedure It does not disqualify them or prevent them from holding any position.but the CSD has the power, through its board of directors, to suspend all of them from their duties until the file is resolved, something that could take months.

The power vacuum in the RFEF

If, in fact, the CSD suspends all of them, especially the members of the management company, the RFEF would be completely beheaded politically, creating a power vacuum that the law does not foresee how to remedy. Critical situation that would join the managerial beheading that the Federation is already suffering, since the general secretary and departments such as marketing, legal services, human resources and even the sports management of the men’s team lack a director in full exercise of their functions, either by dismissals or temporary suspensions of those who governed those plots.

Silence prevails in the Government and they refer to the statements made on Tuesday by the president of the CSD, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribesin which he defended that “the RFEF must definitively distance itself from behaviors that embarrass us all” and that “Spanish football deserves that its leaders and representatives be guided by the principles of honesty and good governance.”

“Firmness and respect for the law”, added the Secretary of State for Sports, and that is the problem. On the one hand, the Government knows that it cannot allow the RFEF to continue any longer in the situation it has experienced since Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso, eight months ago. On the other hand, it is a titanic mission to find the appropriate legal solution to the mess (something in which the previous president of the CSD, Victor Francosfailed miserably), because the situation is so convoluted that no legislator could have foreseen it in its entirety.

So the Government, while intensifies talks with FIFA, a key agent in the final resolution, due to his ability to intervene the Federation, is buying time. The suspension of Rocha and that of the rest of the members of the management company must be decided by the board of directors, which must be convened 48 hours in advance. If summoned today, It would not be celebrated until Mondaysince the weekend does not count.

The Government’s plan

Because suspending all of them (if that were the decision of the members of the board of directors) would in no case be the final point. In the short term, it would even intensify the current entanglement due to the power vacuum that would be generated, so The Government must have a perfectly armed, legally impeccable plan, of the steps to be taken later. The final point, yes or yes, would have to be the call for general elections, which would provide the RFEF with a new assembly first and then a president, both with a mandate for four years.

From the CSD they simply explain that the legal services continue with the analysis of the file provided by the TAD and all the documentation that comes with it, but The obvious interpretation is that the Government is buying timewhile circumstances occur that favor a possible solution.

This Wednesday, almost half of the presidents of the territorial federations sent a letter to the CSD in which they put themselves at their disposal and that of FIFA to close the crisis once and for all. A writing that is interpreted as a tacit acceptance that the RFEF be intervened and that, above all, breaks ranks in a group that had aligned itself seamlessly behind Rocha in the face of the electoral process. Even current members of the management company, who 24 hours earlier had launched a very harsh statement against the Government, backed by a completely castled Rocha, have signed their signature on that statement sent to the CSD.

Rocha’s flight forward

The ideal solution at this time would be a resignation from Rocha in his flight forward, but the Extremaduran leader has walked, at least until now, in the opposite direction. Neither the opening of the TAD file, nor the accusation of him in the Rubiales case, nor the revelation that the salary of Rubiales against the judgment of their own legal servicesnor the progressive abandonment of those who were his allies seem to make a dent in his ambition to be president of the RFEF.

For this reason, because of this confinement, the easiest solution seems like an entelechy. This would involve a non-suspension of Rocha and his resignation and calling elections for four years as soon as he was proclaimed. Because what does not seem acceptable is that the RFEF has a president accused in a case that investigates a corruption plot within the Federation itself, even if the law does not prevent it. Nobody, except Rocha and some of the territorial barons, seems to have any doubts about it..

2024-04-18 06:16:59
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