Reforms to the National Sports Law could be known today, of national urgency – 2024-03-01 01:34:27

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Reforms to the National Sports Law could be known today, of national urgency

With the majority in agreement, the Education Commission obtained an express favorable opinion to be able to reform the sports law, as an attempt to lift the IOC’s suspension of national Olympic sports.

The Education Commission learned this Thursday, February 29, of the bill promoted by the ruling party, to lift the suspension of the Guatemalan Olympic Committee. (Free Press Photo: Carlos Hernández)

The Education Commission of the Congress of the Republic seeks this Thursday, February 29, to obtain the support of at least 107 deputies and approve as a national emergency the initiative that seeks to modify the National Sports Law.

In an extraordinary session of the legislative board, deputies agreed to support the bill that could allow Guatemalan athletes to participate with the country’s flag in the future Olympic Games in the middle of the year, in Paris, France.

However, during the meeting the document could not be signed due to the absence of some deputies, but independent congresswoman Victoria Pálala said that the agreement is to support the law and that during the plenary session that day they would be promoting its approval out of urgency. national.

The Vice Minister of Sports, Francisco Aguilar, and Willy Kaltshmitt, as a representative of the International Olympic Committee, participated in the discussion of the initiative for their opinion, who indicated that the approval of the initiative could help the current situation of Guatemalan athletes, who could participate. with full rights for future Olympic Games.

Both the representative of the Ministry and the delegate of the IOC, avoided ensuring that with the approval of the reforms in Guatemala the sanction would be lifted, because a withdrawal presented by the Federated Sports Court (Tedefe) before the Constitutional Court is still pending. and this institution still has not resolved it.

What commission does it correspond to?

This Thursday, February 29, the president of the Sports Commission, Gustavo Adolfo Cifuentes, from the Todos block, was invited to the work meeting, who requested that the Education Commission send the legal proposal to its legislative table, as it was the expert in sports matters.

The legislator’s proposal was not supported by the rest of the members of the Education Commission, so Deputy Cifuentes expressed his disagreement and warned that it would be prudent that on future occasions, both the Education Commission and the Sports Commission, because they are the expert, delve into a bill to fundamentally change the crisis that national sport is experiencing.