The federal world is going through turbulent months marked by endless electoral processes. Alberto Ayora, until now president of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing, seeks to be re-elected in an almost unbreathable climate caused by their own territorial federations. “Every Wednesday for three years, I have received a complaint by email”he admits to OKDIARIO in an interview in which he reveals how those who are supposed to be his allies made his life impossible.
Ayora saw how the Territorial Federations – especially the largest – They each waged their own war, economically stifling and intentionally towards Hispaniola in an unprecedented move. “We should all be rowing in the same direction so that this sport“, which is the fifth in Spain in terms of licenses, continues to grow and is not made for personal and political interests”, he admits.
The until now president of the federation has tried to explain to the capricious territorial federations like the Catalan, the Basque or the Aragonese that they must “be united” and that they must share resources with the Spanish. “For example, the president of the Basque Federation comes to see you with an insurance brokerage company and says: ‘if you keep this insurance, he will give you this sponsorship for three years, 100,000 euros.’ This seems very good to me, but of these 100,000 euros, part of it will also have to go to the Spanish Federation, right? Because we do not sell insurance coverage, federal cards are sold by regional federations.” complaint as an example of the economic asphyxiation to which the Spanish economy is subject.
Ayora believes that if Española were entrusted with overall management, there would be significant changes. “We would do a lot better, that’s what we tried at the beginning. If as many autonomous federations as possible work on common insurance coverage, we can become bigger, stronger and benefit from better social benefits. for all federations… and move towards the model of the French Alpine Club of the IOC or the Italian Alpine Club. The more there are, the better the premiums will be, the better the coverage will be, and we will all benefit,” he says.
The federative card is the contribution that mountaineers pay to be covered. “To put another number, if, let’s say, you get a federal card and it costs you 100 euros and of those 100, 60 are for insurance, 30 for regional tax and 13 for Spanish tax.”ensures a clearly unbalanced casting.
And the complaint came
In this complicated situation to work and progress, Ayora has just learned that one of the multiple complaints filed against him has just been elevated from the CSD to the TAD.but with a less than transparent process. Starting with the fact that the person concerned was not informed and learned about it through the press – at the beginning of October – and continuing because the complaint took place in March and they gave him space in October at the gates of the electoral process in which the President of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing Business by chance presents himself for re-election.
A month after what was published in the Diario de Navarra, Ayora discovered that she was in the spotlight. “On October 30, I received the letter from the Higher Sports Council, the Secretary of State confirmed to me that there was indeed such a complaint.that it has been transferred to the Sports Administrative Tribunal and that the process they carry out is as follows: as soon as a letter is received, they transfer it to the Sports Tribunal,” he said.
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“At present the electoral process is already open and there are already three candidates on the table. So obviously Let’s say that the other part, the one that put up this resistance during these four years, worked. “It’s been a stressful, tense and very difficult four years for my team members and now I can’t leave them stranded,” he says. Ayora will continue to move forward as long as it is allowed, even if the situation in a Spanish Mountain Sports and Climbing Federation that refuses to enter the 21st century remains appalling.
