The president of the Central Administrative Court number 2 of the National Court has finally rejected the precautionary measure requested by the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Pedro Rocha, after the two-year disqualification sanction imposed on him by the Sports Administrative Court (TAD), according to iusport.
Thus, only an urgent appeal to the National Court, if approved, could allow Pedro Rocha to remain president and be a candidate in the elections for the presidency of the RFEF scheduled for next September.
Pedro Rocha’s defense argued that a favorable decision would be of no use if it came after the call of the elections in which he aspired to renew the position he had accepted after the disqualification of Luis Rubiales.
On July 16, the TAD partially accepted the proposal of the instructor, state attorney Marina Adela Porta Serrano, and sanctioned the then president of the RFEF, Pedro Rocha, with two years of disqualification.
The disqualification was due to the dismissal of the secretary general, Andreu Camps, a measure that, according to the TAD, he could not adopt as president of the RFEF Management Commission but rather corresponded to this body in a collegiate manner.
The other two accusations against Rocha, the dismissal of Tomás González Cueto and the appearance in the criminal case of Operation Brodie, have resulted in fines that amount to approximately 33,000 euros, since, according to the TAD, they were ratified by the Federation’s Management Commission.
The Federation had already announced, at the time of the TAD decision, that if Rocha was disqualified, his number two, the assistant vice-president Ángeles García, a person very close to the current president and placed by him as his right-hand man, would take over.
