It is definitely: El Nacional “has no legal representative”, this after the committee elected in August was not registered in the The Ministry of Sports, the entity that reported the case to the organizations that regulate football at the national levelof which the Ecuadorian Football Association will be the one that must continue with the “re-establishment of institutionality” in the Creole club.

On November 22, the Ministry announced that Lucía Vallecilla’s term as president ended on June 26 and “it had no legal or statutory force convene, appoint and preside over an extraordinary general assembly of the estates of members of the elected committee”, in August, when he sought re-election to the presidential chair National.

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Vallecilla appealed the decision, but the ministry deemed the request “inadmissible”thereby ending the process and he informed the Ecuadorian Football Association and the Pro League about itand that before the change of government and the arrival of Andrés Guschmer in the Ministry of Sports, who confirmed what his predecessor had decided.

In a dialogue with Federation of Posters, Guschmer said: “We were very clear ratifying what Sebastián Palacios had already stated as minister. Through our legal analysis, we have confirmed that the board of directors of El Nacional is not qualified for registration. That situation, and especially the period that has passed since that moment, allowed us to deliver a letter to the Football Association of Ecuador, in which It is clear that El Nacional does not have an official board of directors, that is, it does not have legal representation“.

“From that moment on the responsibility is on the alliance We are also in constant contact with them because The next step is that Ecuafútbol, through regulations, determine the time that will be given to the team through interim manager, not only they will have to take care of the timing of the election, as well as administrative, legal and even sports issues“, he noted.

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There is a “maximum window of 90 days” for this process, which have passed since the notification of the ministry last November.

Also Guschmer clarified the reason why the ministry cannot intervene directly in the situation of the leadership of El Nacional, because it is a private entity.

“We cannot have some kind of intervention where there is no public funding. In that sense, Nacional is a completely private club, which is due to the football organization “which has a component or a legal entity with some autonomy due to the laws of FIFA and Conmebol, which is the field in which Ecuafútbol enters to regulate what its club must do to re-establish its institutionality,” he indicated.

FEF and Liga Pro, in knowledge

Last December 6and with the confirmation of the ministry responsible for Guschmer, Ecuafútbol admitted that El Nacional is “currently in acephaly” and that in this situation “they will take the necessary actions, in accordance with the current regulations of FEF, Conmebol and FIFA, in order to regulate the legal situation of Club Deportivo El Nacional as soon as possible.”

The Ministry of Sports informs FEF and Liga Pro that El Nacional’s board of directors ‘does not have a legal representative’

Likewise, it is expressed Liga Pro, which detailed in a statement: Given the provisions of the ministry “we will be attentive to the actions of the Ecuadorian Football Association”although ten days have passed since the ratification of El Nacional’s legal status, None of these entities issued a new statement. (D)