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The committee can call the General Assembly, interpret the statutes and hear challenges to board agreements, but it cannot remove the league president. Only a censure vote in the Assembly can end a mandate early, and that needs 32 favourable votes. This legal reality frames the row after the capital club demanded an immediate resignation on 16 October and the league boss flatly refused to move aside. What looks like a boardroom crisis is really a question of votes, numbers and procedure.
The announcement of 16 October filled the First Division seats without a vote. Alaves, Barcelona, Betis, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Villarreal now sit at the table, with Rayo Vallecano and Las Palmas making way for Barcelona and Villarreal. Gil Marin of Atletico was named first vice president, and Ion Ander Ulazia second.
Barcelona’s return matters a great deal because the club now has a direct voice in any meeting about the dispute. So far neither Barcelona nor the sports council, the CSD, has issued a statement on the row. The league president, meanwhile, points to complaints that Real Madrid has lodged with the CSD. That silence leaves the board’s new look open to interpretation.
The spark came on 16 October when Real Madrid demanded the immediate resignation of the president from both his LaLiga post and his RFEF vice presidency, describing his remarks as deeply offensive. Those remarks compared the methods of the club’s television channel with those of Goebbels, and he later denied any Nazi intent.
This was not the first call to go. Madrid had already asked for his departure in late September, after the derby defeat, with reports splitting between 22 and 23 September for the date. The president says he has lost count of such demands, calls them intimidation, argues the club wants to wreck the national competition and says he will not step down.
The structure is laid out in Article 27: a president, two vice presidents, and six clubs each from the First and Second Divisions, serving renewable two-year terms. Article 30 then lists the powers. The body may ask for a General Assembly, carry out agreements, sue on behalf of the league, interpret the statutes, and hear challenges to agreements of the Junta. Removing the president is not on that list.
Article 31 matters more for the current standoff. Meetings run monthly during the season, but an extraordinary session can be demanded by four members or by the president, and it must take place within seven days. On first call, the quorum is half the members plus one, and decisions pass by simple majority, with two-thirds for listed matters. Real Madrid plus just three allies could therefore force a meeting within a week.
The president serves a four-year term, and Article 37 sets out how it ends: expiry, resignation, death, incapacity, a censure vote, a final disciplinary sanction, a criminal conviction or incompatibility. Of those, only the censure vote is a realistic route here, and it sits with the General Assembly rather than the committee. It needs 32 favourable votes to succeed.
The available statute summary does not describe the censure procedure in detail, which leaves some uncertainty about timing. Disciplinary appeals follow a separate route through the Comité Social de Recursos. That distinction is easy to miss amid the noise. In short, the committee can open the door, but the Assembly must walk through it.
Realistically, the committee’s best weapon is procedure. It can request an Assembly, interpret the rules that govern the fight and hear any challenge to board agreements, and any four members can start the clock on an extraordinary meeting. That gives clubs a constitutional outlet beyond public statements, though they still need the numbers to back it up.
For anyone tracking the LaLiga delegated committee Real Madrid Tebas 2026 standoff, the practical test is whether four members ever ask for that session. Until they do, the president remains in office, the demands stay rhetorical, and the real contest happens in the arithmetic of 32 votes. That, not the volume of statements, will decide the outcome.
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Who sits on the new LaLiga delegated committee?
Six First Division clubs hold seats: Alaves, Barcelona, Betis, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Villarreal. Gil Marin of Atletico is first vice president and Ion Ander Ulazia is second, with six Second Division clubs also represented.
Can the committee remove the LaLiga president?
No, removing the president is not among its listed powers. A censure vote in the General Assembly needs 32 favourable votes, which makes it the main route to ending a mandate early.
Why did Real Madrid demand the resignation of the LaLiga president?
Real Madrid reacted to remarks comparing its television methods with Goebbels. The president later denied any Nazi intent, but the club called the comments deeply offensive on 16 October.
Is Tebas still president of LaLiga?
Yes, Tebas remains in office and has refused to resign. He says he has lost count of the resignation demands from Real Madrid and describes them as a form of intimidation.
Has Barcelona joined the delegated committee?
Yes, Barcelona took a seat on 16 October. The club arrived alongside Villarreal, replacing Rayo Vallecano and Las Palmas, and no Barcelona statement on the dispute has appeared so far.
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