The RFEF and various assembly members appealed the TAD resolution after considering it absolutely arbitrary and lacking any basis
On June 10, 2020, the RFEF board of directors called elections for the presidency and Delegate Commission for August 17
The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced that the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has upheld its appeal and annulled the resolution of the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) that annulled the call for elections made in June 2020 by the board directive.
The RFEF and various assembly members appealed the TAD resolution after considering it absolutely arbitrary and devoid of any legal basis and the Fourth Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TSJM has agreed with it and in its sentence imposes the costs to the Administration, reported the body.
On June 10, 2020, the board of directors of the RFEF called elections for the presidency and Delegate Commission for August 17, if that month was considered working by the Higher Sports Council (CSD), or for September 17, if it wasn’t like that.
The electoral calendar also set the date of July 20 for the election of the members of the General Assembly.
After receiving several appeals, the TAD ruled on June 30 and declared the call null and void, the annulment of the electoral calendar, and ordered the retroaction of the procedure to the moment prior to the call, with the obligation to prepare a new calendar. electoral.
“This decision of the TAD was considered, by the RFEF and its highest officials, as absolutely arbitrary and lacking any legal basis, like others that the TAD had been dictating on previous dates and always along the same lines; and That had been complained about, both publicly and privately, by the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales,” the organization said today.
The elections were finally held on September 21 two years ago and Luis Rubiales was re-elected, as the sole candidate, with the support of 95 votes out of 105 cast and 10 blank.