An unbiased affiliation of Spanish soccer followers have requested a courtroom “droop the electoral course of” for the presidency of Actual Madrid.
Madrid membership president Florentino Perez will search re-election for a sixth time period in 2025, having most lately had his keep prolonged in an unopposed election in 2021.
Perez, 77, has been president of the Spanish giants for a complete of 21 years over two spells, from 2000 till 2006 after which since 2009.
Nevertheless, the Federacion de Accionistas y Socios del Futbol Espanol (FASFE) — an unbiased fan community fashioned by associations of supporters golf equipment throughout Spanish soccer — believes there are “severe irregularities” over Madrid’s electoral course of.
FASFE allege, in a courtroom motion submitted to a decide this week, that Madrid’s present election guidelines enable the membership to regulate which of the membership’s 100,000 socios (members) are chosen to attend the meeting as voting ‘delegates’.
The authorized grievance alleges that this contravenes the sports activities regulation which governs how ‘socio-owned’ golf equipment in Spain are run and asks for a suspension of a course of to decide on these delegates which begins this Sunday.
En defensa de los derechos de nuestros miembros socios del #RealMadrid, ante las graves irregularidades que presentan las elecciones convocadas para socios compromisarios del membership, hemos solicitado al juez la medida cautelar de suspensión del proceso electoral (1/2)
— FASFE (@FASFEaficion) April 25, 2024
“In protection of the rights of our member who’re socios of Actual Madrid, given the intense irregularities introduced by the elections known as for by the delegate members of the membership, we’ve got requested to the decide for a precautionary measure to droop the electoral course of,” learn a FASFE assertion.
“We demand that these elections have all democratic ensures and that every one members, no matter whether or not or not they assist their membership’s president, can current themselves and take part on equal phrases within the electoral course of.”
FASFE imagine it’s particularly vital that potential crucial voices inside Madrid’s socio base are allowed to be heard, because the membership are planning adjustments to its statutes which might endanger its ‘fan-owned’ mannequin sooner or later.
Perez stated ultimately 12 months’s meeting that he was planning a brand new monetary construction for the membership, which might enable for extra outdoors funding, in an effort to compete with state-owned golf equipment. He maintained that this could not injury the socios’ possession of their membership.
Perez, a development magnate and former native politician, has overseen adjustments to the membership’s statutes over his tenure which tighten eligibility necessities over who can run for the membership’s presidency.
This comes following a members vote in 2012, which limits the sector of potential runners to those that have been a Madrid socio for no less than 20 years and should have enough private wealth to have the ability to receive a financial institution assure value no less than 15 per cent of the membership’s funds.
Perez has not had a direct challenger for the Madrid presidency in any of the newest three elections in 2013, 2017 or 2021.
The Athletic have contacted Madrid for remark.
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