The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, met on February 21, 2024 in Switzerland with the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach. They talked regarding how to lift the suspension that has weighed on Guatemalan sports since October 15, 2022.
The president assured that both “the IOC and the government agree on the interest and desire for national athletes to participate with full rights in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” which will take place from July 26 to August 11.
In the CC, the plenary session has not yet met to make a decision on the withdrawal presented by the Federated Sports Electoral Tribunal (Tedefe) on April 14, 2023. For this plenary session, it has emerged that there are favorable votes from the judges Claudia Paniagua, who joins the plenary session due to the inhibition of Néster Vásquez; Dina Ochoa and Roberto Molina Barreto.
The rapporteur of the draft sentence, Leyla Lemyus and President Héctor Hugo Pérez Aguilera, would be once morest approving the withdrawal. But if this option does not prosper, the hearing would be placed once more in the Legislature, where the ruling alliance would have to approve a bill presented in October 2022.
Arévalo revealed in Switzerland plan B that falls on Congress and consists of approving a bill that was presented by former deputy Mario Taracena in October 2022 and he supported along with another twenty legislators.
Proposal 6149 provides for reform of the National Law for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports, decree 76-97 of the Congress of the Republic. This initiative was heard in plenary on February 1, 2024 and sent to the Education, Science and Technology commission chaired by a deputy from the Cabal bench.
Legislator Mario Velásquez, president of the commission, explained in a video that he had “in his hands initiative 6149, with which the International Olympic Committee would be able to take an important step so that Guatemala is represented worldwide.”
The bill, according to Velásquez, “is in the opinion phase in the education commission. As president of the chamber, I am going to call immediately so that we can have a meeting and give a favorable opinion.”
The representative for San Marcos added that at that meeting the agreed adjustments must be made, so that a favorable opinion is given and “it can be submitted to the plenary session for approval as a matter of national urgency.”
“Guatemalan sport must be dignified. Guatemala must receive international recognition and here in this bill is the quick solution from the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala,” he concludes.
The project that Velásquez mentions aims to eliminate from the Sports Law all the organic and administrative part that conflicts with the Olympic Charter and the IOC.
This, according to the legislators who presented it in 2022, is doing so to comply with the autonomy of the COG, which is full.
Furthermore, the modification of this norm, they reveal, only leaves the articles that have to do with accountability.
Furthermore, the initiative repeals everything that has to do with the subjection of the COG before the Court of Honor and Tedefe, organizations of the Autonomous Sports Confederation of Guatemala (CDAG).
If Congress approves the presented initiative, then the COG would be governed by the statutes and Olympic Charter that were endorsed in December 2021 by the IOC.
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