José Manuel Franco will leave his position as president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), after just over two years, to run as number one on the PSOE list for the Senate in the general elections on July 23.
The Federal Committee of the PSOE has ratified this Saturday its lists of candidates for the elections, in which Franco heads the relationship for the Upper House for Madrid, for which he must cease as Secretary of State for Sport, in compliance with the Organic Law of General Electoral Regime.
Franco was appointed by the Council of Ministers on March 30, 2021, when José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes was in charge of the Culture and Sports portfolio that is now held by Miquel Iceta, and he became the third president of the CSD in the government of Pedro Sánchez. , after the former skier María José Rienda and Irene Lozano.
Franco assumed the Secretary of State on the eve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were delayed to 2021 due to the pandemic, and during his tenure the process of professionalizing the women’s soccer league was completed and the new anti-doping and anti-doping laws were approved. Sport.
The first renewed the one in force since 2017 with the support of all the groups and the second, for which a draft was already made in the stage of María José Rienda, went ahead far from the consensus that the previous one aroused to replace the norm that governed since 1990 and come into effect just at the beginning of this year.
Franco’s presidency in the CSD has coincided with convulsive moments in Spanish sport, mainly football, due to judicial investigations and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office on the contract of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the Spanish Super Cup to be played in Saudi Arabia, achieved with the mediation of the company of former player Gerard Piqué, and also due to the so-called Negreria case, which investigates the payments made by the Barcelona Football Club from 2001 to 2018 to the person who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), while he held office.
In the first case, the CSD has suspended any action while the judicial authority has not ruled and in the second it has tried to appear as a private prosecution, although the magistrate of court number 1 of Barcelona has rejected their request, considering that public bodies do not They can exercise popular action, unless there is express legal authorization, which is only provided for in the case of gender violence.
The latest controversy in Spanish sport has also been generated by football and the racist insults directed in some fields at the Brazilian Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior. The CSD has condemned and punished the facts with the tools at its disposal, through the Anti-Violence Commission.
The Council of Ministers next Tuesday will foreseeably approve the name of the new president of the CSD, who, according to Iusport, could be the Secretary General for Culture and Sports, Víctor Francos, as well as the dismissal of José Manuel Franco, who initially counted as director General of Sports with the former deputy and former director of Barcelona Albert Soler, until he resigned at his own request and last January he was replaced by Fernando Molinero.
Graduated in Law, a career civil servant in the Ministry of Defense, and a member of the PSOE since 1981, Franco (A Pobra do Brollón, Lugo, 1957) was a socialist deputy in the Madrid Assembly for seven legislatures and a government delegate in the capital since February 2020 until his appointment as head of the CSD.
His stay at the Government Delegation coincided with the start of the pandemic and he was investigated for the 8M demonstrations held that year, days before the declaration of the state of alarm in Spain.
After the autonomous elections of May 4, 2022 in Madrid, Franco resigned as general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid.
As EFE was able to confirm, in the next legislature the until now spokesman for Sports in Congress, Juan Luis Soto, will not be eligible for re-election as a deputy, a position for which he was elected in the previous general elections of 2019, after having been a senator in the mandate of the PP.
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