The electoral process for the presidency of the RFME continues to go through situations difficult to imagine for all fans and federations. The dispute between Angel Viladoms and Manuel Casado adds a new chapter of controversy, marked by the actions of the current president, who is blocking an electoral process that should have been resolved before the end of the year.
Consequently and given the seriousness of the actions, Manuel Casado’s team has issued a press release with the details that explain the current blockade and why the celebration of the national
trial competitions
in 2017, as well as other specialties, is at risk.
The headlines are as follows:
> Angel Viladoms’ lawyers, acting on behalf of the RFME, have once again stopped the electoral process in a Valencia court challenging eight votes of athletes, despite the fact that the opposition candidacy won in the pilots’ category by 297 votes to 71.
> 12 of the 18 motorcycling federations threaten not to host any 2017 Spanish Championship if the election result is not respected after a judge in Valencia paralyzed the electoral process
> They represent more than 75 percent of licenses, have 80 out of 98 votes in the Assembly and demand that defeated President Angel Viladoms not block the institution.
> Otherwise, they are considering not authorizing any event of the 2017 Spanish Championships, which would leave the RFME practically without circuits or routes.
> Order 2764/2015 obliges the RFME to have held elections in 2016, but Angel Viladoms refuses to leave by undertaking all kinds of legal processes and tricks, having achieved the paralysis of the electoral process.
> Angel Viladoms, who continues to receive the salary of 86,000 euros as president despite being president only of the Management Commission, has less than a fifth of the support and has formed an irregular electoral board, with people linked to him.
It is a scandalous and unprecedented scenario in the history of Spanish sport: the outgoing president of the Royal Spanish Motorcycling Federation (RFME), Angel Viladoms, has been defeated by a ratio of 4 to 1. His candidacy achieved 18 support in the Assembly, compared to 80 for the opposition candidacy headed by Manuel Casado and which brings together more than three quarters of the Federations, licenses and representatives of Spanish motorcycling.
Viladoms, who continues as president of the Management Commission and maintains his salary of 86,000 euros per year despite being in office, has blocked the electoral process from the beginning with legal tricks, knowing from the beginning that he did not have the support to be re-elected.
The latest episode in this chain of legal tricks has been that the RFME itself asked for the precautionary suspension of the electoral process in a Court of Valencia, alleging this time that 8 of the Valencian pilots who appeared in the census did not have a license. It is surprising because the complaint comes from the RFME itself taking part in its own electoral process, and it has also been the secretary general of the RFME himself, Julián Martínez, who has carried out the census that he is now contesting. The Court of Instruction number 12 of Valencia has admitted the complaint for processing, without there being to date any expressly denounced, and has precautionarily paralyzed the electoral process at the express request of Angel Viladoms himself using a representation of the President of the RFME that does not correspond to him and alleging that the votes had not yet been carried out. which is totally false.
This precautionary suspension joins several complaints and irregularities that have been delaying the process that should have concluded and appointed a new president before the end of the year, as set out in the Ministerial Order that regulates it. The Management Commission of the RFME reported on the 22nd that, after the Court’s decision, the electoral process could now be delayed again for up to three years instead of proclaiming the new president on December 3 as planned after the last postponement.
The complaint has neither head nor tail because the census has been carried out by the RFME itself, but in any case we would be talking about something residual, which could affect at most 8 votes, when it has lost by a difference of 220 votes, in the athletes’ category. If we were talking about football, it’s as if he were contesting a game that he lost 8-1 because of an offside,” explains Manuel Casado, the opposition candidate.
Fed up with this situation and the fact that Spanish motorcycling is deteriorating year after year, the presidents representing 12 of the 18 territorial federations, 76.52% of the licenses and more than 80% of the Assembly, have decided to stand up to Angel Viladoms: “We have met and we are maturing the possibility of not hosting any round of the 2017 Spanish Championships of any speciality if the situation is not unblocked and the electoral result, which has been overwhelming, is respected. There is no doubt that Spanish motorcycling has massively voted for change against a president who behaves as if the RFME were his property and who clings to a salary that we pay him among all the motorcyclists.”say the presidents.
The agreement, which will probably be joined in the coming days by some more federations, already represents 12 of the 18 territorial federations and all the largest: Catalonia, Andalusia, Valencia, Cantabria, Castilla León, Castilla La Mancha, Melilla, the Canary Islands, Extremadura, Aragon, the Basque Country and Madrid.
Given that it is the power of the territorial federations to authorize the RFME tests in their territories, this would leave Viladoms without circuits, without routes and without a way to start 2017 with a level of organization worthy of our country, in which it tries to continue at the head of the Federation at all costs.
