Rafael Louzán, the president of the Spanish Football Federation, today faces the review of his appeal in the Supreme Court against the sentence of seven years of disqualification to hold public office that was imposed on him for prevarication when he was president … of the Diputación de Pontevedra.
A process that can cost the position it accessed two months ago, if the intention of the Superior Sports Council (CSD) is fulfilled. Although the Galician leader has the head strategy to defend himself at all costs. If the Supreme Court ratified the conviction or does not take away the disqualification, Louzán has planned to resort to the Constitutional Court, so that the process would be extended.
According to the sources consulted by ABC, Louzán will not be folded to an end point with the sentence of the Supreme, which in theory would make the conviction firm, but intends to extend the process to the highest Spanish constitutional organ. His argument is that football is an autonomous entity that makes its own decisions, and based on this he was elected president of the RFEF.
It is the opposite position to the one that maintains the CSD. If the Supreme Court is unfavorable to Louzán and maintains any period of disqualification (one month or the current seven years), the CSD will act based on the Sports Law, article 60.6, according to which before a firm sentence a position must leave supposed.
“When the person holding of the Presidency or any member of the Board of Directors of a Federation or Profession The Sports Law.
The words of Minister Pilar Alegría were clear: «We have been transferring an image for a few years. We all have very fresh in memory what happened with the previous presidents of the Federation. It is what the assembly members voted and chose. We are going to wait for That oral view That it will be held on February 5 and, if that seven -year sentence is ratified for prevarication, we will act according to the Sports Law and we will have to call elections to the Federation again.
Precisely this Tuesday before his view in the Supreme, chance or not, Rafael Louzán meeting with the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin and other leaders of the football governing agency in Europe, in Nyon (Switzerland).
Louzán was received by the president of UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, in which he has been the first visit of the RFEF president to the UEFA headquarters after being elected to hold the position last December.
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