Juanjo Isern: “The 13F election is a disgraceful ‘pucherazo'”

Juanjo Isernwho is a candidate for the presidency of Catalan Football Federation, is still immersed in the judicial process to reveal what he calls the “corruption” experienced throughout the electoral process. Isern maintains that in the repeat of the February 13 votes -they were held again due to the many irregularities revealed in the May 22, 2022 process- the pitfalls are even greater.

“On the same day as Catalan Sports Court (TCE) ruled the repeat elections for the presidency of the Catalan Football Federation (FCF) on May 22, the corruption machinery of the FCF president, Soteras Vigohas been reactivated to repeat a process that gave rise to the most shameful electoral corruption that has occurred in the history of Catalan sport”. violates all democratic principles. The shame of electoral repetition, he not only reflected to the mockery and evidence of his rule, but increased and perfected his corrupt methods. And for this, it launched a new plan, led by its Director General, José Miguel Calle, burdened by several judicial complaints of corruption. They organized a strategy to not allow the electoral victory to escape them and they could lose the millionaire salary that the two got and all the football and futsal clubs in Catalonia pay.”

Juanjo Isern maintains that this strategy was designed “in a corrupt way all those days, in which, in a completely illegal way, Soteras remained as a candidate and president, making him, without any doubt, a character. unworthy by law, a fact already declared by the courts in similar cases”.

Legal representative of hundreds of clubs

Isern explained how the process followed by Soteras Vigo when he left the FCF was as follows: “The first action was to insult, degrade and belittle all members of the TCE. without respecting the legalistic spirit of the TCE: Soteras became legal representative of all clubs in Catalonia and represented them in hundreds of public deeds that, assisted by a notary from Sabadell, and with information that from own federation was sent to the notary by labor federationTherefore, they did not allow any president or secretary of the club to go through the notary (as requested by the TCE in its resolution), to certify their appointments. This truth delegitimize the signatures of notarial acts. By signing the minutes, Soteras became an illegitimate representative of the clubs, without the power granted for this purpose, replacing his identity. All of them were signed by Soteras in one day, turning hundreds of irregular clubs into Soteras voting clubs, along with some public deeds done by Soteras candidacy members as controllers given to presidents of clubs, as soon as they appeared in the voting room, were threatened with phone calls asking them to show up to vote”.

Speakers and relatives at tables

“To try to hide all kinds of evidence about the massive corruption that took place on February 13, Soteras included inspectors from his own team to the straw candidate Pep Palacios and strict orders were given to the presidents of polling stations (salaried family and friends. of the Soteras team) so that Isern auditors cannot verify any identity of the people present to vote -with reason for data protection- in such a way that no auditor can verify if the people who voted are really the presidents, or the ‘relatives of the Soteras candidates’, as they did in the May 22 elections and are under police investigation.

Soteras, by placing the workers of the federation in the polling stations, made them judges and parties, violating the impartiality that should govern the actions of the members of the polling stations, guarantees of the necessary electoral neutrality. They put up all kinds of obstacles so that some clubs in favor of Isern could not vote, a fact that forced the auditors to request the presence of the Mossos d’Esquadra in some electoral centers.

And he concluded by saying: “A whole host of corruptions, illegalities and electoral lies made the elections of February 13 the most shameful ‘pucherazo’ in the history of Catalan sports.”