Bullrich to review AFA transparency, cites irregularities | OneFootball

Senator-elect for La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Patricia Bullrich, announced that from Congress she will seek to “study transparency” within the Argentine Football Association (AFA).

Amid the government’s feud with the entity’s president, Claudio “Chipi” Tapia, Bullrich stated: “I say this as a senator. I have been studying it. The AFA is a non-profit association that has a monopoly over everything. Why does it have a monopoly over everything? How does internal democracy work? What is the election system like?”

“There are many irregularities here, and I am going to focus in the Senate on studying the transparency of an association that is not just any association, it is the AFA,” emphasized the senator, who was sworn in for her seat this Friday.

Bullrich was asked whether she thought it would be appropriate for the AFA to be intervened: “I can’t say because we haven’t discussed it. I am studying it from a legal perspective because today I am being sworn in. So, I will have the opportunity for us in Argentina to think about transparency.”

“Many times we think that institutions are the three branches of government, but there are many institutions in Argentina that operate as if nothing has changed. And things are changing,” she said in radio statements.

Amid the controversy over the trophy awarded to Rosario Central and the sanction against Estudiantes, the former Security Minister pointed out: “It can’t be that everyone knows there are sons and clubs that are favored, stadiums that are favored.”

“There are a lot of irregularities that are common knowledge. This thing of tying clubs down, giving certain benefits, discretion… here the smaller clubs are tied to the discretion of the AFA.”

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