“They are violating the law and the statute and also assume a risk: the members of the Board of Directors and the Assembly Members may incur the crime of disobedience, prescribed in article 239 of the Penal Code. And the law provides that in the event of serious non-compliance, the Ministry of Justice can intervene,” the official said on Rivadavia radio.
“We cannot prevent them from meeting at their headquarters, but that will not be an assembly, it will be a meeting of friends, because this will not be approved and what is resolved there will not be registered with the IGJ, no It is going to be validated,” Vitolo explained this Wednesday.
Through Some modifications will be proposed in the statute and there will be talk about canceling relegations, to reach a First Division with 30 teams.
Dalbón noted on his networks: “Dear, since the ruling is not final and the Assembly has been raised, it is done and then it will be the Civil Chamber that decides with the effect of res judicata. So the impact of the news is strong, but the reality is different.. “Cordially Greetings.”
For its part, The AFA plans to appeal the rulingsince for the moment Tapia was the only candidate in an early election, originally scheduled for next year.
The lawyer also cited a statement from Ministry of Justice that reported the ruling against Tapia, and remarked: “Don’t be rude. The IGJ’s decision is not final. There is an appeal for what the Assembly does and all the effects are left to be resolved by the Civil Chamber. There is a suspensive effect. Strange that Cúneo Libarona has not warned them. Since the law is presumed to be known by everyone“.
Setback for Chiqui Tapia: the IGJ suspended the assembly in which his reelection was going to be voted on
The General Inspection of Justice (IGJ) suspended the Ordinary General Assembly which was scheduled for next October 17 by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). In it, it had been ruled that Claudio Chiqui Tapia be re-elected for a second term in the position he has held since 2017.
In addition, the suspension of descents and the possibility that there will be 30 teams again First Division. Given this panorama, the future of the AFA and Argentine football is unknown.
As Ámbito learned, the AFA will appeal the decision.
The president of the AFA may decide to continue and hold the assembly anyway. But both in that case, he and the assembly members who participate in the process may have criminal charges for disobedience.
This is because the article 239 of the Penal Code sentence: “Anyone who resists or disobeys a public official in the legitimate exercise of his or her functions will be punished with imprisonment from fifteen days to one year.”
Source: Ambito
