San Lorenzo hold assembly, plan next steps in club crisis | OneFootball

This Monday at the Nuevo Gasómetro, the Assembly will be held where the 90 members will decide on the new government and the date for the elections.

San Lorenzo faces a crucial Monday because at 6:00 p.m. an Extraordinary Assembly is scheduled at the Pedro Bidegain stadium, in which it is expected that the new interim Board of Directors will be chosen and the call for extraordinary elections will be discussed.

While awaiting the court's decision regarding Marcelo Moretti's request to annul the Board of Directors meeting where his government was declared headless, find out about the confirmed candidates to take the reins of the club and the way the voting will be conducted.

The first names to step forward as alternatives for the 90 assembly members are, for now, Sergio Costantino, César Francis, and Manuel Agote, belonging to the groups Por Amor a San Lorenzo, Volver a San Lorenzo, and Movete Boedo Movete, respectively.

Costantino is already a familiar face within the Boedo environment, having been part of the governments of Matías Lammens and Marcelo Tinelli. In 2023, he ran for president for the then-official party and came in third, which allowed him to join the Board of Directors as a minority member and he was one of the five who did not resign from his position, since doing so would have prevented him from being a candidate this Monday. In addition, in September he also had the chance to preside over an interim Board of Directors.

César Francis, for his part, is a well-known opposition member. In fact, he was a protagonist in Tuesday's meeting due to some posts on his X account, where he, along with Marcelo Culotta, called for Moretti’s resignation. He was also the first, together with another leader, Cristian Mera, to file a corruption complaint against the now former president of Cuervo. In the 2023 elections, he also ran as a candidate like Costantino, but finished fourth, that is, last.

Manuel Agote is the leader of Movete Boedo Movete and very close to Sebastián Pareja, a political organizer in the province of Buenos Aires for La Libertad Avanza, the political force to which Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, belongs. Agote recently filed a complaint with the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) requesting the club's intervention because the deadlines for Moretti to call a Board of Directors meeting had expired. However, that did not happen and the meeting took place on Tuesday.

According to journalist Pablo Lafourcade, Matías Lammens intends to run for a second term as president of El Ciclón, a position he held from 2012 to 2019. Although the club won the championship three times during that period, his tenure ended with significant displays of disapproval from the fans.

The lists must consist of 20 people and must be submitted by an assembly member to their peers in order to be part of the election among the 90 eligible voters. The voting method will be by a show of hands, and the proposal that receives a simple majority of votes will be chosen.

Regarding the early elections, there must be a motion with the call and date, which will also be voted on by nominal vote (where each person expresses their will and their vote is clearly recorded) and will be approved by a simple majority. Although it is not yet known when the call will be made, the intention is for the government elected this Monday to serve until the extraordinary elections.

The president of the Assembly, Daniel Matos, commented on the complexity of setting a date, but made it clear that it is necessary to resolve the situation before all the members, not just the assembly members elected in 2023. “It’s complicated to vote in 90 days. We have to vote during 2026, that’s for sure.”

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