The president, Luis Lacalle Pou, defended the decision of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) to intervene in Villa Española from June 21and said that the “established assumptions” were given to reach that decisionat a press conference held this Friday.
“The government does not intervene in an institution of this type because it wants to, because a minister stands up and decides to intervene”ironized the president, who remarked that the club it has “a statute that must be fulfilled” and it has partners “who demand this intervention”.
Lacalle mentioned the Twitter thread of the Minister of Education, Pablo da Silveira, who explained that the intervention was due to a complaint by a group of members of Villa Española, for which “numerous apartments” were found What “elections that were not held, decisions of assemblies that were not respected, absence of a functioning Fiscal Commission.”
Da Silveira responded to criticism of the intervention, calling it an “operetta” that is “embarrassing”. “Present this as a case of political persecution it is indefensible“, criticized Da Silveira, who remarked that “None of this has to do with politics”and that “Only ignorance or bad faith can explain some reactions.”
Both the criticism and the internal discussion within Villa Española had their political side, since part of the members’ complaint deals with the social and political manifestations of the club in recent yearswith Demonstrations in favor of the search for disappeared detainees and their March of Memory, the LGTB collective and womenbut also political demonstrations against the LUC of its leading player, Santiago López.
“If I see a photo of the president of the PIT-CNT and he says ‘what a good Villa Española!’ because all the players of the club, with the clothes of the institution, in the club’s facilities they are promoting to sign against the LUC or if I see the team leader (Santiago López) who in a televised game he lifts his shirt and says an inscription ‘No to the LUC’As much as I agree with all these interventions because I have been a member of the Broad Front for 30 years, it’s not over there”said to The Observer Edgardo Ramos Verde, former president of the institution in 2011 and 2012, and one of those who signed the complaint.
The complaint, made in December 2021, also deals with the lack of elections in the institutionwhich should be done once a year according to the club’s statuteto which he agreed The Observerbut what have not been held since December 2020.
In addition, they denounced that a new Fiscal Commission, which only had one member at the time the complaint was madeand that the directive wanted to approve the balance of the year 2020 without the approval of this commissionanother obligation of the club’s rules.
