This Friday, January 19, starting at 2:00 p.m., a hearing will be held in the Cuartel Modelo judicial unit in Guayaquil, where the judge will decide whether the board of directors of Antonio Alvarez Henriques has fulfilled all the requirements of the Statute of Barcelona Sporting Club should be legalized before the Ministry sports.

Carlos Nahón Mancheno, a partner of the Canarian team, presented the protection action with precautionary measures on January 3 after the ministry did not accept the registration of Alvarez Henriques’ board of directors. This state portfolio asked the leader to correct nine observations in the documents he submitted for legalization.

Barcelona SC: court case forces Ministry of Sports to register Antonio Alvarez Henriques’ directory

This protection allowed Alvarez, as well as other directors, to finance the recruitment of players and the preseason of the first team, which will be held in the city of Tampa, Florida (USA).

Alfonso Harb Viteri, former president of the Guayaquil institution, explained in an interview with EL UNIVERSO that after reviewing the electoral regulations of the yellow club, the businessman fulfilled the requirements required by the statute.

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What do the electoral regulations say about bullfighters?

The entire appropriate procedure was fully followed, the election procedure was announced and candidacies were registered. In the first stage, neither of the two applications passed, but one list was corrected, and the other was not (Rafaela Verduge), so she was disqualified. The Statute of Barcelona in Article 83 states that if only one candidacy is registered due to procedural economy, as the same statute says, the only list qualified by the Court as the winner is directly declared.

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Four years ago, the Ministry of Sports asked the clubs to update their statutes, what about those of the yellow club?

There is talk of a reform decree of the Law on Sports and after a ministerial agreement in 2020 in which clubs were ordered to update their statutes, however, in 2021 the then Minister of Sports Sebastián Palacios made another ministerial agreement not set as a condition for the reform of the statutes for the registration of directors . Obviously, I consider this to mean that Antonio Alvarez’s directive should be registered, because in my opinion no procedural rule, whether statutory, regulatory or legal, has been violated. Barcelona’s statute is registered with the Ministry of Sports, so there have never been any objections to it. For example, there were never any objections to Article 83.

“Barcelona SC does not have a registered board due to problems with the Ministry of Sports, but we continued to invest money,” says Antonio Alvarez

Who supports it?

Lawyers Jorge Zavala Egas and Carlos Luis Sánchez Gaete, who are very professional and, obviously, apart from being Barcelona fans, they are very serious. Always committed to the strictness of the law and that is why they are recognized.

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If Antonio Alvarez’s registration is not accepted, what would be the next step?

What I think is that the board must be registered, and in any case, if the judge finds it absolutely insurmountable to confirm the Alvarez directory because there was no electoral act, it should go back to that starting point of the electoral act. . That the elections be held so that the member votes to support Alvarez, whose candidacy was the only one accepted by the Court. This prevents the greedy members of Barcelona who took advantage of this situation to want to present their candidacies and never did so at the appropriate time.

And if the verdict is the annulment of the previous call for elections

This could lead to chaos for Barcelona and put them in the same situation as El Nacional, who cannot hire a gardener, much less a footballer. Idol is preparing for the Pro League and the Copa Libertadores and it is absolutely inappropriate that there is no president because of the problem, who in my opinion was never in accordance with the law and regulations. (D)